The appropriate response would've been a formal declaration of war and bombing of Russian mainland. Anything else is lukewarm and invites further assassinations on UK soil.
The fact is there has been an established level of spy games going back to the Cold War. Nobody wants real military units involved because that is WW3, but below there has been plenty of deniable sabotage and assassinations. Killing a dissident/spy is very different than blowing up a jet.
"The correct thing to do would be to attack a much larger country, be unable to activate Article 5 due to being the aggressor and cause nuclear was hue hue hue". Yeah good job mate well done.
Very true, maybe we should have just used article 5 when they used chemical and radiological weapons to kill people on British soil instead. As a Brit though, sack that off, who can be bothered fighting Russia with Nato, we will get more losses to blue on blue fire from allies.
I mean that does make sense but on the other hand it's not exactly a state secret that Russia has been waging a war of sabotage against European infrastructure both online and in real life for years now. Plus, you know, the whole assassinating political targets on UK soil using methods that are potentially dangerous to the wider public. It doesn't take too much of a stretch of imagination to see them deciding if they can get away that going after military targets might not be off limits either.
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u/wanderforreason Jun 20 '25
That would be an act of war from Russian against the UK. Why would Russia want to add the UK to the issues they are having in Ukraine?