{"id":39939,"date":"2018-10-31T06:48:20","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T11:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=39939"},"modified":"2018-10-31T06:48:20","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T11:48:20","slug":"sanctions-and-the-hypocrisy-of-washington-and-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=39939","title":{"rendered":"Sanctions and the Hypocrisy of Washington and London"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Sanctions<\/p>\n

Sanctions and the Hypocrisy of Washington and London<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n

On March 4 this year a British spy and former Russian citizen, Sergei Skripal, was poisoned in the town of Salisbury, England. He recovered, as did his daughter who had also been affected, and is now in deep security with a new face and name and an increase to his already generous British salary. The toxin involved was a nerve agent usually referred to as Novichok. The British government immediately blamed the Russian government for the incident and ten days after it took place the\u00a0BBC reported that<\/a>\u00a0the British prime minister had expelled 23 Russian diplomats which she described as \u201cactions to dismantle the Russian espionage network in the UK.\u201d<\/p>\n

It is notable that it took only ten days for the British government to decide to take action against Russia, in spite of there being no proof whatever that the Russian government was involved in the toxin-induced collapse of Skripal. And London didn\u2019t only expel diplomats, it cancelled all high-level bilateral contacts with Russia and froze \u201cRussian state assets where there is evidence that they may be used to threaten the life or property of UK nationals or residents.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then Washington joined in, expelling 60 diplomats, and\u00a0Reuters reported<\/a>\u00a0that \u201cUS sanctions against Russia tied to a nerve agent attack in Britain\u201d would add \u201cto the array of economic penalties it has imposed on Moscow in recent years.\u201d<\/p>\n

The definition of \u201csanction\u201d is generally accepted as being \u201can economic or military coercive measure adopted usually by several nations in concert for forcing a nation violating international law to desist or yield to adjudication\u201d (Merriam Webster<\/a>), or in the same vein, but with slightly different emphasis, \u201cmeasures taken by a state to coerce another to conform to an international agreement or norms of conduct\u201d (Oxford<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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Sanctions and the Hypocrisy of Washington and London On March 4 this year a British spy and former Russian citizen, Sergei Skripal, was poisoned in the town of Salisbury, England. He recovered, as did his daughter who had also been affected, and is now in deep security with a new face and name and an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12435,1997,1236,7746,8203,2080,827,865],"class_list":["post-39939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-brian-cloughley","tag-economic-sanctions","tag-hypocrisy","tag-london","tag-strategic-culture-foundation","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-states","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39940,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39939\/revisions\/39940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}