British man charged with conducting hostile activity in UK to benefit Russia

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1. > A 40-year-old British man is among five charged with conducting hostile state activity to benefit Russia, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said.

   > Part of the alleged activity was the involvement in the planning of an arson attack on a Ukrainian-linked commercial property in March 2024.

   I wonder why this is not being labelled as terrorism. The acts are literally the definition of terrorism.

2. I wonder what motivated them. Possibly far left extremists? I’ve found they tend to swallow Putin’s propaganda very easily – see the greenandpleasant subreddit as an example 

3. I come across a lot of people in day to day life that unwittingly parrot Kremlin propaganda on the Ukraine war. Seems to be easy to convince the cynical and paranoid to act against the interests of their own country.

   They don’t trust any authorities, except the Russian ones.

4. Damn, I thought I’d walked into the better universe and Boris Johnson was finally on the hook.

5. Its about time the caught Boris Johnson. No wait… its not him. Hiding in plain site Boris is though.

6. I opened this expecting it to be about Johnson or some Conservative mp

7. Shit I read the post title and thought the day had finally come for Cameron, Johnson or Farage. One can hope.

8. I assumed this was going to be another one of the SNP being arrested.

9. Add Truss to that charge and we might be getting somewhere.