COST
IN WORLDWIDE TRAVEL?
One
has to wonder...Why?
This Salisbury business has sure put the poison among the pigeons. Just in case you have been in outer space, Sergei Skripal (a sort of Russian Smiley's People character) and his daughter, Yulia, were found poisoned in Salisbury, England, on the 4th of this month (Post 287 refers).
The poison was Novichok which, apparently, is solely manufactered in Russia. It was a reckless attack and its perpetrators were irresponsible scum: but that's spooks for you.
Now, understandably, because nobody likes the thought of unfettered nerve agents roaming around their patch, the world and his wife have taken against those thought most likely to be behind the attack, Russia. Countries far and wide have dismissed from their nation's Russian embassy a token number of the blatant spooks they have tolerated for years. It seems these embassies have been spookily alive with them. (One has to wonder...Why?)
Now, as these countries expel Russian diplomats and Russia expels one country after another's diplomats in reprisal, hundreds of alleged spooks are on the move. Trains and planes are packed with them. If you're travelling first class, don't talk politics and keep your hand on your passport. If you're not travelling first class you won't meet them anyway.
Their countries pay their fares so they'll not be travelling with the hoi polloi.
God knows how much the total travel cost for all these comings and goings will be, but airlines everywhere must be rubbing their hands with glee.
This Salisbury business has sure put the poison among the pigeons. Just in case you have been in outer space, Sergei Skripal (a sort of Russian Smiley's People character) and his daughter, Yulia, were found poisoned in Salisbury, England, on the 4th of this month (Post 287 refers).
The poison was Novichok which, apparently, is solely manufactered in Russia. It was a reckless attack and its perpetrators were irresponsible scum: but that's spooks for you.
Now, understandably, because nobody likes the thought of unfettered nerve agents roaming around their patch, the world and his wife have taken against those thought most likely to be behind the attack, Russia. Countries far and wide have dismissed from their nation's Russian embassy a token number of the blatant spooks they have tolerated for years. It seems these embassies have been spookily alive with them. (One has to wonder...Why?)
Now, as these countries expel Russian diplomats and Russia expels one country after another's diplomats in reprisal, hundreds of alleged spooks are on the move. Trains and planes are packed with them. If you're travelling first class, don't talk politics and keep your hand on your passport. If you're not travelling first class you won't meet them anyway.
Their countries pay their fares so they'll not be travelling with the hoi polloi.
God knows how much the total travel cost for all these comings and goings will be, but airlines everywhere must be rubbing their hands with glee.
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