Guest Post by Kit Knightly
Two days ago it was reported that UK Defense Secretary Grant Shapps was warning the country might face another “novichok-style attack”.
And he’s completely right – although probably not in the way he wants you to think. But we’ll get to that.
First, we should ask: What exactly is a “novichok-style attack”? What was Shapps dire warning intended to convey?
For those who may not know, Shapps was referencing the alleged poisoning (with a nerve agent called “novichok”) of exiled Russian GRU officer/MI6 agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury in March 2018, the “official account” of which has been subject to what one could politely call “ongoing revision”.
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