Posted on 03/22/2018 5:41:59 PM PDT by GoldenState_Rose
Bolton said the "blatant" attack in public reminds him of North Korea, "Moscow's friend," murdering Kim Jong Un's brother in the middle of an airport last year.
"It's an act of defiance. It's saying to London and the other western capitals, 'what are you gonna do about it?' Well, I think there should be a very strong answer to that," he said, arguing the time has come for real "deterrence" that Vladimir Putin will understand.
John Bolton said Thursday that the chemical poisoning of a former Russian spy and his daughter in England fits into the larger pattern of Russia and similar regimes making peaceful promises and then lying about them.
The former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations said that not only is the attack itself significant, but so is the fact that it is in violation of the Chemical Weapons Convention.
"What does it take to get people to connect the dots?" "Russia, China, Syria, Iran, North Korea...these are regimes that make agreements and lie about them."
Sergei Skripal, 66, and his daughter Yulia, 33, were found unconscious on a bench in the English city of Salisbury on March 4 after being poisoned with a “very rare” nerve agent, Fox News reported.
In a meeting Wednesday at the United Nations, U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley condemned Russia over the attack.
"If we don't take immediate, concrete measures to address this now, Salisbury will not be the last place we see chemical weapons used," Haley said.
In a further response to the attack, U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May expelled 23 Russian diplomats.
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There are many Russian agents in the UK that MI5 is aware of. They mostly watch and monitor them to see what the hell they are up to. Perhaps a few should die via tragic accidents or just a single 22 long rifle slug to the head fired at close quarters. This would send a message to Russia that is clear and simple. Do not kill in our nation!
Along with his views on immigration and trade, a big selling point for Trump was his rejection of Bush/neocon foreign policy. His earlier cabinet appointments (Tillerson, McMaster) were disappointing. Bolton is much worse - Trump may as well have picked John McCain, Lindsey Graham, or Bill Kristol as his national security advisor.
The only consolation here is that most of Trump's cabinet members and senior advisors don't seem to last very long, so with any luck, Bolton will be back to his old job of ranting away on TV in a few months time.
A punk with a yellow streak down his damn back who would not fight in Vietnam ( thought it was wrong), so; he will send your kid? Her is pure PUNK/COWARD IMHO
One of the many strange features of the nerve gas poisoning in Britain is that no one seems to have died, yet. Despite the alleged use of one of the most toxic of chemical weapons. Nor can the British government say where the poisoning took place, or how it was administered.
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