The japanese emperor said in 1945
"it is time to think the unthinkable - to endure the unendurable"
but tovarich Putin isnt there, I am afraid
OP post needs a bit of correcting
yes I did watch the interview - the reason I thought that the Kremlin hadnt done the conference whilst the iron was hot the day before was that they didnt have an English speaker good enough.
An ambassadee is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country
and he was....
Say you were 20 in 1945 - born 1925 - so today as a vet he would be aged 93. Not many of them around. Virtually no one on the arctic convoys. - the western view of the Russian victory in Germany is that they may not stop until they get to Paris ( as they did in 1815 ). The russians liberating Berlin wasnt looked on with any pleasure by the germans or the western allies
And by August 1945 - the cossacks were being sent back to Uncle joe ( Stalin that is!) to their deaths. So the western love affair with the Red Armey lasted about three months
He went onto some anbassadorial non sequiturs
was it coincident that Porton Down was just down the road. Well yes it has to be as it took the authorities 48 h to realise that something was amiss ( we dont think there hasbeen a crime - Chief Constable of Wilts - oops! )
There are no germ samples because they dont exist.
The agent used was a chemical A234 - one of the novichok agents - and this is not a germ. You dont send samples to the aggressor and ask - "did you do this?" because often they will say "no".
I got a bit bored with it all
The judge has NOT ordered that samples be given to the Russians. He has consented on behalf of the Skripals to draw blood. You may wonder why or how someone can be on an ITU and blood not drawn for 20 d after admission.
It has of course
This blood is for tests which may not be in the direct interests of the patient- altho I would have thought knowing whether or not one has been poisoned by nerve gas and which, WOULD be. but that's me. chasing diagnoses and so on
Corbyn I thought did very badly -