Putin ’Probably’ is a Megalomaniacal Thug

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.

The wheels of justice grind slowly in the United Kingdom.  Ten years ago, a harsh critic of Russia’s kleptocratic dictator, Vladimir Putin, was assassinated in London. 

The way Alexander Litvinenko was murdered cast suspicion immediately on Putin and the successor to the Soviet Union’s feared spy agency in which both men had served, the KGB.  A highly toxic radioactive substance was put in Litvinenko’s tea at a meeting with two other former Soviet spies.

An inquiry conducted by a British judge has finally concluded that Putin “probably” ordered the execution. With all due respect to Judge Robert Owen, it seems as likely that the thug who runs the Kremlin “probably” ordered Russia’s seizure of Crimea, the dispatch of its forces to Syria and the arming of Iran.  

Which is to say, in all four cases, it’s not merely probable, it’s a certitude.  

This is Frank Gaffney.