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Some interesting things for context:

- Russian embassy in Prague is one of the biggest embassies in CZ

- our president is strongly leaning to Russia, lobbying for Sputnik V vaccine even though it's not approved, and verbally dismisses sanctions against Russia

- all of this is happening during preparations of Dukovany nuclear power plant expansion, where Russian Rosatom still wasn't dismissed despite clear security risks

> our president is strongly leaning to Russia, lobbying for Sputnik V vaccine even though it's not approved, and verbally dismisses sanctions against Russia

Yet Zeman agreed with Babiš on the decision of the secret services finding which led to the expulsion of Russian diplomats.

I'm curious about the Dukovany NPP part here - I haven't seen any news services in Poland reporting on this in context of the expulsion.

Rosatom has been excluded from the selection process since.
Interesting: "The Czech police on Saturday evening released images of two men wanted for serious offences. The two are Anatoly Chepig and Alexander Mishkin, the same Russian GRU agents believed to have carried out a failed assassination attempt using the poison Novichok in Salisbury in the UK in 2018."

The KGB seems like a very efficient operation.

The KGB was dissolved in 1991 and later succeeded by the SVR (foreign intelligence) and FSB (federal security).

The GRU is the military intelligence agency.

The KGB changed its name. The staff and methods did not change.
From what I read on this it is surprising to me that the Russian involvement has not been uncovered earlier.

The two operatives were official visitors to the warehouse at around the time of the incident. Scans of their fake passports have been on file ever since. It seems they could have easily been recognized as GRU operatives at the latest when their faces became public knowledge in 2018.

If you're a "director" of an ammunition warehouse and screwed up precautionary measures which led to an explosion - what's your best course of actions? a) announce "sorry, i screwed up. Pls fire me" b) blame evil russians
Did you read the article? They provide evidence beyond a simple act of hearsay scapegoating.

Also, the Russian government is run by a murderous autocrat. The agencies directly under his control certainly are evil.

They claimed they have evidence, however it's not clear what the evidence is.
Yeah, everything they write in articles is true, of course.

Qui bono?

Obama-Biden administration is major cause of millions of deaths in Middle East, Africa, etc. Yet Obama got a Nobel prize for peace and Biden accuses other of being a "killer".

The poster isn’t wrong, though. Whether or not the claims are true, the claimant should sort their own problems out first.
The claimant is Czech republic in this case.
It sounds like you're not familiar with why whataboutism and ad hominem attacks do not create a counterpoint to an argument.

I'd like to encourage you to read a little more to try and gain a deeper perspective on how issues are framed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

I’m familiar with the concepts, no need to condescend.

The point is precisely about framing, this isn’t a moderated debate between equal parties we’re talking about. The material incentives of the speaker are essential in understanding their motivation.

US proxies can speak the truth (in the strictest sense) and still mislead through the manipulation of context and framing. And said speech can further the interests of extracting profits from the global south.

I meant no condescension.

I just don't understand your suggestion the US "sort their own problems out first".

If this were a court, do you think the judge should drop the whole SolarWinds case against Russia because of Obama's actions in the Middle-East/Africa?

My point is precisely that this isn’t a court of equals. We are all constantly threatened by the US, either directly or through a proxy.

With guns pointed at us the US makes claims, usually to undermine any efforts to resist the threat.

Appealing to hypocrisy is an attempt to shift the blame to evade an argument.

Obama's decisions in Africa do not justify anyone hacking SolarWinds.

Most parents won't allow their children to get away with passing the blame like this, let alone a court of law.

Again, the point isn't the hypocrisy itself but rather the unfairness of the "court". The US gets to constantly blame countries it oppresses of various things without consequence, to the point where it hardly even matters whether what they say is even true.

Hypocrisy is merely a symptom.

What is Russia's motive purported to be?
Czech munitions were/are compatible with the Soviet era weapon systems used by Ukraine. At the time Ukraine was buying whatever was left at former Warsaw Pact countries. Russia's motive was to deny Ukraine this possibility.
It could be not necessary Russia's motive. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/czech-minister-says-russia-ro... Imagine if a - let's say Westinghouse Electric Corporation - wants a juicy government contract and wants to kick China General Nuclear and Rosatom out of competition. How would you do that? One way to do it - dig out 7 year old skeleton and drag it through the streets of the town with the mask of Putin.

Cheap and effective, ~7 billion $ is at stake.