The nerve-wracking Skripal affair

[Aimless]

Interesting take on the Salisbury crisis: https://www.iiss.org/en/iiss%20voice...th-russia-af7f

(proposals in the second half)

I hadn't considered the possibility of intensified sanctions driving oligarchs back into the fold.

Also seen an interesting suggestion about encouraging/enabling very talented and highly skilled Russians to move to the west, depriving Russia of its most valuable human capital.

Things may be moving, in the UK:

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Too little too late? Does the risk of inadvertently helping Putin consolidate power remain?