Crazy like a fox, perhaps.
"Ukrainian Presidential Candidate Dosed with Lethal Poison!"
That would be the headline. It would not be reality--dioxin, to date, is not lethal--but the headline would be there, and everyone would blame the perfidious commies in Russia.
Again, I respect what you are saying; but for me, I can’t go along with it. If it would work (for sympathy), Kerry and Gore may have tried something like that blaming it on Bush.