Russia was behind arson attacks targeting the UK's Prime Minister, BBC reveals(www.bbc.co.uk)
19 pointsby JustSkyfall5 hours ago2 comments
  • jwlit3 hours ago
    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."

  • flash14 hours ago
    unbelieveable. That's almost an act of war
    • JumpCrisscross4 hours ago
      Flip it around. Britain sponsors attacks on Putin’s personal residence. On what planet are he and his supporters not waving nukes around?
      • Natfan3 hours ago
        well one of the leaders of state started the first ground war in Europe in decades, and the other has not. so to me, if this was flipped, it would be more justified (or rather, slightly less unjustified (all violence is bad))
      • twangist4 hours ago
        > Britain sponsors attacks on Putin’s personal residence.

        Citation needed.

        • JumpCrisscross4 hours ago
          It’s a hypothetical.
          • twangist4 hours ago
            I realized too late. I mistook you for a tankie, apologies!
            • 4 hours ago
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              • baud1472583 hours ago
                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.

        • poisonwomb3 hours ago
          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
          • Arodex6 minutes ago
            Russia is at war with Ukraine. Is Russia officially at war with the UK? If so, say it openly, so that we stop dancing around and send troops directly.
          • JumpCrisscross2 hours ago
            > To pretend there’s not a through line here is absurd

            You know what? I’ll accept it. Europe should directly assist Ukraine in targeting Kremlin leadership. If there really is a through line, might as well exploit it.