{"id":203409,"date":"2020-03-05T08:44:52","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T08:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=203409"},"modified":"2020-03-07T06:55:54","modified_gmt":"2020-03-07T06:55:54","slug":"salisbury-poisoning-unleashed-russian-bogeyman-but-where-are-the-skripals-2-years-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=203409","title":{"rendered":"Salisbury poisoning unleashed Russian bogeyman … but where are the Skripals 2 years on?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Simon Write \u2013 RT March 4, 2020<\/h1>\n
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Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

Forget Where\u2019s Wally, what we really want to know is where are the Skripals? It\u2019s exactly two years to the day since the Russian spy and his daughter were novichoked in Salisbury, and we\u2019ve still not seen hide nor hair of them.<\/span><\/p>\n

Former double agent Sergei has been completely off-grid, while Yulia Skripal was seen in a highly staged video in 2018, filmed in an anonymous but pleasant leafy glade shortly after recovering from her poisoning ordeal; but, apart from that, there has been no statements or updates about them at all.<\/span><\/p>\n

The most recent piece of \u2018information\u2019, and I use that term loosely, to leak out about their whereabouts came this weekend from Britain\u2019s Mail on Sunday, courtesy of a source which became ubiquitous throughout the Skripal saga, the reliably unreliable \u201csecurity insiders.\u201d\u00a0<\/em> It\u2019s always amazing how willing these apparent insiders are to release top-level secrets to the home of the \u201csidebar of shame.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The latest speculation from \u2018security insiders\u2019 is that the Skripals are hoping to head for a new life down under in Australia after \u201ceffectively living under house arrest since the attack.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0 This means either those insiders are the leakiest spies in the world, or the Skripals are going to be nowhere near Australia<\/a><\/strong><\/span> anytime soon.<\/span><\/p>\n

The house arrest must be at Julian Assange in Belmarsh levels of security, because even the Skripals\u2019 family in Russia say they haven\u2019t heard from them in months.<\/span><\/p>\n

So all quiet on the Skripal front and, frankly speaking, it\u2019s all quiet on the geopolitical front, too, and in the media. The disputed events of March 4, 2018, over poisoned spies and their aftermath formed the biggest story on the planet, and not just because the whole world finally started paying attention to the majesty of Salisbury cathedral\u2019s glorious 123-metre spire.<\/span><\/p>\n

This incident seemed like it might have genuine life-changing political consequences. Britain entered the phrase \u201chighly likely\u201d<\/em> into the lexicon of geopolitics, and [then-PM] Theresa May\u2019s declaration that it was \u201chighly likely\u201d<\/em> that the Kremlin was to blame was deemed strong enough to see the West turn en masse against Moscow, and Russian diplomats and \u2018diplomats\u2019 were expelled by the dozen, by London and its allies across the world. It seemed the bar for state-to-state accusations had been lowered.<\/span><\/p>\n

Russia to this day denies involvement in what happened in Salisbury.<\/span><\/p>\n

So what has changed? If anything, all that has changed over the last two years is a desire to get back to business, to rebuild ties and move on. Some of those expelled diplomats have reportedly moved back<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

French leader Emmanuel Macron is pushing hard for relations between the West and Moscow to be repaired, something Germany needs little encouragement for.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Brexit dividend (for Russia)… In 2019, British imports of Russian oil jumped by a whopping 57% compared to the previous year, as Boris Johnson's government unleashed the potential of their country. https:\/\/t.co\/ZSIJGvpFif<\/a><\/p>\n

— Bryan MacDonald (@27khv) February 27, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n