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After the poisoning of a former Russian spy and his daughter, countries have suspected the incident to be the use of a nerve agent by the Kremlin. The Russian government promptly rejected these accusations, but this has not slowed the world from expelling numerous Russian diplomats from their nations in response to what Jacek Czaputowicz, the foreign minister of Poland calls an “unprecedented attack on civilians with the use of chemical weapon, unseen in Europe since World War II.” He also says that Russia’s primary goal is to “disrupt international order and create a sense of danger.”
What I thought was really interesting about this article and incident was 1) how strongly united the EU was behind Britain’s bold stand against the Kremlin, and 2) unlike with occurrences in Soviet times, the Russians no longer have Eastern European allies who can carry on the work for them. Anthony Glees, the director of the Centre for Security and Intelligence Studies at the University of Buckingham in England, in the article even says, “There are no surrogates this time around. The Germans are on our side, the Czechs are on our side.” He is referring to the satellite nations which the Soviet Union instilled after World War II, unsatisfied with the quantity of land that they were dealt afterwards and determined to spread communism in countries which couldn’t help themselves. Those countries later served as pawns, as Mr. Glees mentions. While I don’t know how much I believe that the poisoning was an act by the Russian government, I know that relations between Russia and western countries, such as the US, have been cold and wet with distrust pretty consistently for the past century, most prevalent in the Cold War.
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