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Hiku said:
vivster said:
I always found this practice to be odd. Diplomats' whole existence is to do diplomacy. But the first thing they do after an incident that would require diplomacy is expelling the diplomats?

It's not their first course of action. Russia were given 14 days to explain how a Russian military grade nerve agent ended up poisoning a former Russian spy in the UK. No explanation was given. (Although Russia asked if they could analyze the nerve agent, iirc)

There's still not the slightest proof that it really was the russians (if someone wants to contradict, please do so - but name an actual proof, not some bullshit in the likes of "I've heard there is some dossier that contains proof").

So let's just assume for a second that it wasn't the russians - how exactly could they even react? If it wasn't the russians, then the russians are obviously as incapable as everyone else to explain things.

That's as if some person in Switzerland was murdered with a "Colt" revolver, and now everyone accuses the US to be responsible because "Colt" revolvers were developed in the US. And the US gets 14 days to fully explain the case.

Personally, I consider anyone who seriously believes it was the russians to be either very badly informed or to be a brainwashed moron. I mean, how can one seriously believe that out of the billion possible ways to kill the guy, they'd actually pick the very one way that instantly points towards them? It's completely ridiculous.