BORIS ON RUSSIA'S LAST NERVE?

Isn't "Boris" a Russian name? 

The other Boris was confrontational, too.
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Independent: Fears Russia could move to unmask British spies in bitter 'tit-for-tat' over poison attack

• Exclusive: Senior members of Putin’s administration are incensed by what they consider to be aggressive and inflammatory remarks made by British ministers
• The disclosure could start, it is feared, with those who work for MI6 among the 23 British diplomats being thrown out of Moscow in retaliation for the same number being expelled from the UK. Doing so would break standard protocol in place to protect spies from opposing sides, in recognition that exposing personal details may put them in danger including from terrorist attacks.

As always, we, the people, are kept in the dark while these guys are busy creating movie plots at our expense.

Britain has stocks of Novichok nerve agent claims Russian ambassador in extraordinary press conference

• Mr Yakovenko accused the UK of a “bad record of violating international law and misleading the international community”. Russia, he added, “can’t take British words for granted”.
• [Also said that Britain] had given residence to Russian serial killers, and said Britain was trying to find a “new role in the world” after Brexit by taking an anti-Russia stance.

That last statement makes me wonder if this might not be about ultimately taking an American stance against Russia while setting a scene for Brexit-ing into a 5-Eyes Union. That would be another thing nobody would ask us about.

• On Wednesday, Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson compared the upcoming World Cup in Moscow to the 1936 Olympic Games under Adolf Hitler.
• Mr Yakovenko hit back, telling reporters it was an “insult” to the “Russian people who defeated nazism and lost more than 25 million people”.

Probably that's what burns the hineys of Britain and the US the most; the fact that they could never have defeated Hitler without the Russians. The war was barely over before they were at loggerheads again.

National sour grapes - a dangerous thing.
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​How the Soviet Union helped save the world from Hitler during World War II

• 'It was the Western Allies' extreme good fortune that the Russians, and not themselves, paid almost the entire 'butcher's bill' for defeating Nazi Germany'

Re: The 1936 Summer Olympics in Germany: Despite the German sponsorship, and occasional shots of Hitler and crew, not to mention some of the language ("the Black American/Canadian; the White American") the documentary movie produced by Leni Riefenstahl, is an absolute artistic masterpiece.

So, if you'd like to spend an afternoon enjoying the beauty and excitement of an Olympics season with no embarrassing scandals and no pervasive glut of corporate advertising, here's where to find it on YouTube: Part One and Part Two

(You'll get to see America's Jesse Owens break an Olympic record and win lots of Gold.)