A number of countries have expressed solidarity with the United Kingdom and have expelled a number of Russian diplomats. These countries include the following:
From the EU:
Belgium
Croatia
Czech Republic
Denmark
Estonia
Finland
France
Germany
Hungary
Ireland
Italy
Latvia
Lithuania
Netherlands
Poland
Romania
Spain
Sweden
Non EU:
Albania
Australia
Canada
Macedonia
Moldova
Norway
Ukraine
United States
Of course the United Kingdom was the country who started this new round of expulsion of diplomats.
I find it funny that all of these countries are following the UK lead even though as far as I know not a single amount of proof has been given, no technical analysis, no perpetrator. I think these countries are being too hasty with these actions, I personally think that the UK needs scapegoats because Brexit is not going as planned and they will use this to tell the British people that with such a belligerent Russia it would be suicide to quit the EU.
I believe Brexit is a dumb idea and I don't know how the Brits voted for it, but vote they did and Brexit won, so what the governemnt should do is just walk out and get it over with, not try to fool people into staying.
If you look at the countries most of them are members of the EU, I wonder why Japan, South Korea or China haven't done anything? Perhaps they are waiting for more solid evidence?
Now as for Russia being behind the murder attempt of Skripal and his daughter, apart from a lot of things that make me think this is a setup, the one that is most obvious to me is, except if Russians are complete idiots, the last thing they would use for this attack would be a chemical weapon which only they could produce, my head even hurts when I read something as dumb as that. It would have been much easier to stab them in their homes, and you know put the blame on criminals or maybe Islamic terrorists which is how they normally deal with attacks like these. To me it looks like for now the Muslim threat is low so you have to find another scapegoat, nothing has come out proving Russia has influenced elections so there must be some other crap to throw at them.
I don't particularly like Russia, much less Putin, but he is being attacked by people from all sides of the political spectrum, some call him a fascist,a communist a socialist, one thing I have never heard him called is a liberal, but I want to be clear he can't be all of these things at the same time, so there is some evidence-less mud slinging going on.
Like for example I read a lot of comments on newspapers about Russian bots or Putin bots, I wonder if this is true? And if it is true I wonder if Russia is the only one doing this? Wait, I know they are not the only ones, hell I live in Honduras and we have call centers dedicated just to bashing political opponents, so I doubt other countries don't have something similar.
This is a part of what the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov had to say:
"When one or two diplomats are asked to leave this or that country, with apologies being whispered into our ears, we know for certain that this is a result of colossal pressure and colossal blackmail, which is Washington’s chief instrument in the international scene,"
I wonder if what he said is true.
So in this new world of fake news, it is really troublesome to me that countries can act on stories which are not corroborated.
