The Litvinenko Affair

A UK court declared that Putin had, in fact, ordered the murder of former KGB spy Litvinenko. Litvinenko was poisoned with polonium in London back in 2006.

People are celebrating but I find the whole thing to be barf-worthy in the extreme. The assassination took place 10 years ago. Before his death, Litvinenko named the assassins. This has all been known to everybody interested in knowing for a decade.

But the British government found it inconvenient to notice that KGB agents were running around London, poisoning folks with fucking polonium all over the place. It was more convenient to sell the country piece by piece to Putin’s gangsters, driving property prices in London sky-high and turning the place into a cesspit of corruption. It was more convenient to fill Britain’s best schools with the drunken, bullying, whoring, criminalized spawn of the gangsters, turning the formerly prestigious British education into a joke. It was more convenient to turn the country into a launch pad for Putin’s criminal activities.

Today’s revelations about the hit he took out on Litvinenko will do no damage to Putin. He can rightfully and convincingly say that it’s suspicious that the accusations suddenly surface now and not at any time before he tried to assert Russia’s importance on the international arena.

The Litvinenko scandal is helpful to Putin because it allows him both to dismiss the murder and rev up his people even more with claims that Americans trying to bring him down because they fear is growing international prestige.