was not amused. The GRU used a Russian-made nerve agent—and one brewed in a specialist facility, not whipped up in a school lab—in order to ensure that while the Kremlin maintained a certain nod-and-a-wink deniability, there could be little serious doubt of who was responsible.
9/6 Although (May) refrained from mentioning 〜Putin by name, the implication that he likely knew about Petrov and Boshirov’s plan was clear.／ The GRU’s ethos of completing the mission no matter what means that innocent lives lost or even the revelation of agents’ names are not blunders(
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Russia’s Military Intelligence Agency Isn’t Stupid
Former Russian Spy Scandal Suggests the Old Espionage Rules Are Breaking Down (Op-ed)
