Salisbury Poison Attacker Identified As Russian Colonel - Polidicks

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/09/26/skripal-hitman-unmasked-gru-colonel-awarded-russias-highest/ >One of the trained assassins wanted for poisoning Sergei Skripalis a decorated colonel in Russian military intelligence given the country’s highest award by Vladimir Putin. The real identity of one of the wanted men in the nerve agent attack - named by counter-terrorism police as Ruslan Boshirov - can be disclosed as Colonel Anatoliy Vladimirovich Chepiga. https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/237427/7ce2d89a-81d8-40bc-8ed5-631da089dc92/image.png

Imagine fucking up an assisination this much that you get ousted as a spy this badly.

They sent a fucking COLONEL? What the shit lmao

I'm assuming if you're in the Military Intelligence as an operative you probably already have a high rank. Doubt you'll find many privates or sgt's,

https://forum.facepunch.com/f/pd/btrft/Russian-Cathedral-Enthusiast-Identified-as-Decorated-GRU-Officer/ Hasn't this been posted already?

no he is just a tourist you see there is a lot of interesting things in salisbury that makes it a common destination for two russian middle aged men on vacation

They wouldn't send just anyone on a mission involving international assassination with dangerous chemical weapons

Bollocks, must have missed it due to that obscure as fuck title. My apologies.

Russia isn't sending best - they're sending murderers, assassins, rapists and SOME, I assume, are good people.

They just didn't follow the tried and tested method. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dss_9FmCqtg They fucked this up big time.

Yeah, I think that was the reason why most people ignored it. I think this might be a better thread for it anyway, might as well put the links from it into your OP.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag1o3koTLWM

Speaking of Chris Morris, the Russians should just have used this assassination method: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nvfQw8UCDE

After this shitshow I doubt he'll be colonel for much longer.

I doubt it, I think it's all intentional. Testing waters of international patience, so to speak.

Big deal, in America they have colonels in charge of fried chicken

I heard there's lots of generals in charge of shops too

Nobody likes General waste though, I hear he wad given an absolute garbage dump of an assignment.

A colonel isn't that odd for intelligence work. You want competent people with wide reaching authority to act. There's a reason James Bond is a commander in the Royal Navy. Commander is equivalent to Lt Col.

Huh, learn something new every day.

Is this what modern war looks like?

Bellingcat claims it ‘conclusively’ identified Skripal poisoning.. This is RT's take on it, it's actually a fairly sensible article which goes into detail on how Bellingcat came to their conclusion. They finish it off with the statement that it hasn't yet been verified, which I guess is true as I don't think the UK intelligence agencies have commented yet.

nonsense, this was obviously a Ukrainian ex-rebel who was on vacation and spilled some bad fish into the victim's blood stream with intent to frame Russia and is a body double of the real russian

wow been a long time since i've laughed out loud reading a post on facepunch.

Actually a fairly sensible piece of propaganda from a propaganda network that is run, directed, and shoulder-watched by the Kremlin*. https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/133737/7608bb97-a3d2-4632-bd4e-4633fe5b773f/image.png But we've been over this many times before, haven't we?

Are you always an insufferable prick? I posted it as RT is exactly state sponsored media, which might be nice to add to the discussion if you take off your tinfoil hat and examine a situation from more than one perspective and information source. Maybe you aren't curious to hear what the Russians have to say in response but don't act like you're the king of journalistic practice and make assumptions about the reasons for posting rival sources. Nothing they said in the article was inaccurate it was just levied on the side of innocence by the terms they used.

I do. The problem is that you are posting propaganda. Nothing is useful about propaganda. If you want 'insights into what the Russian government is thinking' then use a reputable outlet that filters all the bullshit - such as Radio Free Europe, exactly as I recommended.

Do you have any idea how much western propaganda gets posted on Facepunch? You're posting as a West vs East guy and so all your discussions will be based around bad guys and good guys, it's honestly a pretty childlike way of viewing the world and if you can't take a step back and read Propoganda News Outlet articles without fear of becoming a dirty communist over night then maybe you should back out of Politics as there's plenty of this shit to go round in our own countries also. Even CNN and the BBC are essentially state run networks, they just aren't from an enemy country. Meanwhile I want to hear what the Kremlin has to say on the matter and as a point of discussion it's a useful article to post. This is a forum to discuss politics not push ideals, stop being so scared to evaluate conflicting information sources.

As much as I hate to agree with Resonant, he's right and you're being a twat.