The Weapons companies need a bogey man to point at and say we need to spend on defence.
That Skripal poisoning was bulshit. The New York times ran a story that said. Gina Haspel head of the C.I.A showed Donald Trump photos that the Americans got from the British government. Of Children sick in hospital and also photos of dead ducks that were poisoned.
Those pictures made Trump throw out the Russian diplomats.
Also Vladmir Putin only came to power because when Boris Yeltsin was president the Russian people knew he was a puppet for the Americans, as a result American Companies looted Russia and stole it's resources for pennies. Putin was elected and threw the American's out and took back the money. The Neo-Conservatives in the U.S and U.K have hated Putin since.
The crap about Russian meddling in the American election was an excuse made up by John Podesta & Robby Muck from the D.N.C 10 minutes after Hillary Clinton lost a Rigged, Fixed election to Trump.
Also America has interfered in elections in over 85 countries since 1945.