Life imitating art imitating life. Agents assassinating expat Russian dissident living in Britain by

poisoning ex-KGB fugitive and his 33 year old daughter in the middle of a public park in broad daylight.

Russia hasn't so proudly left its fingerprints all over the scene of their handiwork since the diplomatic fallout from Litvinenko's viscerally grueling public execution by radiation 12 years ago.

With America on the ropes compromised by the Kremlin's well orchestrated machinations to install its long cultivated asset as US president known better to the rest of the world as an indefatigable twitter troll and Putin's personal cock monkey.

The Russian dictator appears to be taking this moment to flex, gloat, and take another victory lap while doing some long overdue house cleaning.

But what I found most disconcerting today was hearing British leaders standing by themselves publicly denouncing Russia and threatening their own retaliation should their investigations find FSB culpability. In my entire lifetime US has stood with it closest ally UK in times like this and stood up for the rest of NATO in solidarity against bullying tactics of Russia and other former Soviet mafia states. British leaders seem to realize era of reliable US global leadership of the free world is over and they're left to fend for themselves.