U.K. vs Russia: A new Cold War?

The U.K. expelled 23 Russian diplomats after the poisoning of a former Russian spy. Russia has retaliated by expelling 23 British diplomats. Is this the beginning of a new Cold War?

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[jefffisher]

She's just trying to be the next "Iron Lady"...

[ritadoucet-canada]

Russia will NOT instigate/start the coming war, if there is one. Why does the UK protect over 40 Russian political refugee's? Rich People that committed treason against their own government, they should be sent back to face the music yet the UK gives them asylum and thinks there would be no repercussion from them, if these UK Russians can betray their own country do you think they'd remain little angels hiding out in the UK. You asked for your problems. I blame the UK for lying to the world.

[nevillethomas]

“How did they come to the conclusion about Russian ‘footprint’ if they didn’t give us those sample? Logically they shouldn’t have this substance. Which samples have they compared with to draw such a conclusion?” Zakharova said.

“Questions arise: then, they should have samples, which they conceal, or it is a lie from start to finish, ” she said.

“If the UK prime minister and other British experts give the formula, then it will be clear which countries have been developing these agents, ” Zakharova said.

Zakharova’s comments echoed those of Russia’s representative at the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), Aleksandr Shulgin, who said the ‘Novichok’ research was taken out of the Soviet Union following its collapse.

According to Shulgin, the US and the UK had developed the nerve agent that could have been used in the poisoning of Skripal, and that Russia has never conducted similar research.

[Assistance]

You let the criminals in; you should expect criminal activities in!

[thetom]

as much as i love my country i really think englands in the wrong here.

[abigweeb]

I live in the UK and I know nothing about this situation

[alexgibb]

If it stops me getting Russian vodka up here in Scotland I'll be mad lol... At least give us something to enjoy before you crush us

[saileshks]

Uk is jumping beyond its capacity! It's not 1940's!

[Elfnetdesigns]

Best thing would be Trump go on TV and state the the US will remain neutral and sit this one out..

[ivataiwan]

allies, allies without allies uk is nothing.

[alanlowry]

OMG can us people just sort it out in a human manner and not course WW3 because our British military isn't the size it used to be, Russia military is 50× bigger then our own so that's why I want to sort it out like human beings and not like monsters. We can't start blaming Russia for this because it may not be them at all. #TheresaMayOut

[wiicodman]

Seize/freeze Russian oligarch assets in the United Kingdom

[russellk.bonney]

Monsanto has effectively been kicked out of India and Russia is now the world leader in producing grain... first class blue ribbon grain. Grain that has been selectively bred over a century using natural non Monsanto methods and those Jews are not happy!

[PruikkiRacing]

This is so Bs,
Happy to see that, atleast comments are enabled!

[hopeking]

They should kick the politicians out in Washington d.c also.all of them!

[ludu]

"I pick Russia Putin " All day!
anybody Pro USA is the problem

[hopeking]

I wonder if this is a flase flag.blame Russia when great Britain did it

[nevillethomas]

“The most likely source of origin of the toxin are the countries which have been carrying out intense research on the substances from the ‘Novichok’ program, approximately since the end of the 1990s until the present time, and this project is not the creation of Russia or the Soviet Union, ” Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Saturday.

The US should also “be put under question, ” Zakharova said.

The Russian official made the remarks days after British authorities announced that Skripal, 66, and his 33-year-old daughter, Yulia, had been hospitalized since they had been found unconscious on a bench outside a shopping center in the city of Salisbury.

British police attributed the critical illness of the two to a nerve agent developed by the former Soviet Union, while British Prime Minister Theresa May accused Moscow of being responsible.

[I_yaba_daba_dee]

Does that mean its lights out for me, maybe?

[sfinx]

Yes, Russia will use soviet chemical weapon :D And Russian stamp on letter and their sign and returning address: Moscow 1, huh? ... Didn't US and UK also told us that there are WMDs in Iraq?
Let's see ... how many countries attacked US/UK alliance and with what result? How many they killed and how much they have stolen? But what is the worst? When Russia annex region with 60% Russian population ... that's really really bad.