Comments by "" (@EbenBransome) on "Putin directly ordered the Salisbury killings" video.

I disagree (I'm not repeating my longer post as to why). Shouting playground insults at Putin is in my view a grave error, which in your case doesn't matter, but fortunately people of actual importance tend to avoid.
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To be fair, in the tables of horror, the Allies as well as the Germans developed nerve agents of which "novichok" is simply a more potent derivative. Whether it takes a whole drop or a tenth of a drop to kill someone is mainly of academic interest. The fact is that Russians deployed a WMD in this country and technically NATO should have jointly responded, but did not. If that bottle had smashed in a shopping centre or a school, there could have been dozens, perhaps hundreds, of deaths. Putin intended a test and a warning. He may even have chosen Skripal and Salisbury to see how Porton Down would respond. The warning was "I could kill thousands of people in a city." The test was how NATO would respond. NATO failed to respond militarily and the rest followed.
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