http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/georgia-expels-russian-diplomat-spy-poisoning-54091761 The former Soviet republic of Georgia says it will expel a Russia diplomat in solidarity with Britain over the nerve agent poisoning of a former Russian spy. Thursday's announcement follows the expulsion of more than 150 Russian diplomats by European Union nations, the United States, NATO and other ...>> When will the Russian regime comes to its senses....and STOP their international aggression?
You're probably correct but there's hope that some day they will see the light, change their behavior and do the right thing. Still....I thought it was courageous of Georgia, a former satellite of Russia when they called themselves the Soviet Union, to join the free world and expel one of Russia's diplomats...i.e spy. Progress is sometimes slow....we have to be patient!
Strange how Russian diplomats, who've been occupying Embassies all over Europe for years, have suddenly turned out to have been 'spies' all along, isn't it? Christ it gets dafter by the day.
Cerebus does not know that the spy game is played by stuffing embassies and consulates and whatevers. (ᵔ ͜ʖᵔ)
Actually, most of them are spies. I happened to read Putin's book(transcribed in English) about his work in the KGB when he was stationed in East Germany, among other places. You'll be shocked how many seemingly 'normal' people are in fact agents of the government. Both your own and foreigners abroad. Which begs the question why aren't diplomats screened more vigorously across every nation. You'd think no nation would tolerate it, instead it seems every nation tolerated up to the point where Russia began exploiting it for its own purposes.
There are 2 types of spies: protected and unprotected. The protected ones have dimplomatic passports and host country is aware of them. The nice thing about being a protected spy is that you cannot be imprisoned for being a spy. The bad part of being a protected spy is that due to host country knowing who you are - your steps are monitored, so you can’t really get a whole lot. Then there is a second type of spy - unprotected, secret spy. Those spies don’t have diplomatic passports, so they have no immunity. Because hosting country does not know about them they are more free to move around, but if they get caught prison sentences are very long. So, yeah, each country has other country’s spies in embassies/consulates and vice versa.
That’s the way diplomacy works. Each country adds intelligence staff to its diplomatic missions. It’s a norm and everyone is aware of this. Those aren’t spies you see in movies, they get intel openly. Obviously, because their identities are known to a host country, these spies can’t get as much intel as secret unprotected spies without diplomatic creds.
Yeah...diplomatic niceties such as calling 'spies' diplomats is definitely 'political correctness'...we need to call reality as it really is and stop this silliness!
For the unprotected ones to suddenly be expelled, their presence in the embassy, by implication, must have been known about sooner than the expulsion, so the salient question is - why weren't they expelled sooner?
Georgia by this move clearly picked the West in this WW3, despite all the risks its geographical location naturally brings... Bulgaria having called its ambassador to Moscow back to Sofia, I think Greece, Turkey, Pakistan, and India are the countries that are potential game changers but remain neutral so far. We can say other than Iran, and what's left from Iraq-Syria (the shiite trio), Russia is all alone. North Korea and China won't be backing them as the latest US diplomatic and economic steps knelt them down for good... European Union member states: France - 4 Poland - 4 Germany - 4 Lithuania - 3 Czech Republic - 3 Denmark - 2 Italy - 2 Spain - 2 Netherlands - 2 Estonia - 1 Latvia - 1 Sweden - 1 Belgium - 1 Ireland - 1 Finland - 1 Romania - 1 Croatia - 1 Hungary - 1 Ireland - 1 Total: 36 Non-EU European states: Ukraine - 13 Moldova - 3 Albania - 2 Norway - 1 Macedonia - 1 Georgia - 1 Total: 21 Other countries: US - 60 Canada - 4 Australia - 2 Total: 66 NATO: NATO - 7 Source: Al Jazeera News
All those nations are giving the Putinistas a little something to think about.....and that is, your aggression will have consequences. I would imagine that more countries will be joining the protests very soon!
