London is the de-facto capital of the post-Soviet mafia state. It accumulates a lion’s share of oligarchic assets from everywhere in ex-USSR. But why tackle that, when you can pretend it’s another Cold War. That’s British government’s reaction to Skripal poisoning in a nutshell.
You can’t really partake in the robbery of Russian people and display outrage at the criminal acts of your business partners in this lucrative enterprise - all at the same time.
The failure to admit that Putin’s Russia is an integral part of the Western financial and political system, a Dorian Gray’s picture of the West, will continue to produce all the wrong policies and strengthen ex-Soviet kleptocrats for years to come.
You can’t reform Russia without reforming the West as a whole.
