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Russia was behind arson attacks targeting the UK's Prime Minister, BBC reveals

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Re: Russia was behind arson attacks targeting the UK's Prime Minister, BBC reveals

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unbelieveable. That's almost an act of war

Flip it around. Britain sponsors attacks on Putin’s personal residence. On what planet are he and his supporters not waving nukes around?

> Britain sponsors attacks on Putin’s personal residence.

Citation needed.

Re: Russia was behind arson attacks targeting the UK's Prime Minister, BBC reveals

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Flip it around. Britain sponsors attacks on Putin’s personal residence. On what planet are he and his supporters not waving nukes around?

> Britain sponsors attacks on Putin’s personal residence. Citation needed.

It’s a hypothetical.

Re: Russia was behind arson attacks targeting the UK's Prime Minister, BBC reveals

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Britain sponsors attacks on Putin’s personal residence. Citation needed.

It’s a hypothetical.

I realized too late. I mistook you for a tankie, apologies!

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I realized too late. I mistook you for a tankie, apologies!

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cf https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tankie#Noun

> A supporter of policies and actions by the Soviet Union, China, Cuba or other authoritarian socialist governments.

But the meaning seems to have drifted to (Western) supporters of the current Russian regime.

Re: Russia was behind arson attacks targeting the UK's Prime Minister, BBC reveals

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Pretty interesting (if not particularly surprising) the promotion of inter-community hatred as well.

"two Bristol graffiti artists... were asked to spray-paint the Islamic shahada - the declaration of faith - in Arabic on a defunct Debenhams in the city centre. One was also asked to spray a Quranic verse about the "devil's handiwork" on a Conservative Club in the city."

"... provided Roman Lavrynovych [low-level criminal] with an anti-Muslim poster, designed to appear like it had been written by a Hindu by referencing the 1992 destruction of an ancient Indian mosque by right-wing Hindu groups. "Every mosque closed = 100 fewer crimes," the poster said."

Re: Russia was behind arson attacks targeting the UK's Prime Minister, BBC reveals

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Flip it around. Britain sponsors attacks on Putin’s personal residence. On what planet are he and his supporters not waving nukes around?

> Britain sponsors attacks on Putin’s personal residence. Citation needed.

Ukraine attacked the Kremlin with drones and may have attacked Putin’s personal residence last year (both sides say contradictory things, both sides have every incentive to lie). UK is one of the biggest Ukraine boosters. To pretend there’s not a through line here is absurd
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