Uk, a typical western country, stills seems to be work out her ways to slap RUSSIA with bans following the poisoning of an agent from UK. While RUSSIA keeps denying the poisoning attack amidst other claims by the UK, it has come under the scrutiny of many western countries while forming a close tie with China. Do you think the UK can really slap Russia with bans without any consequence?
countries are not often in harmony they also are in zero sum competition,
russia and the west compete for a good image, against each other, so they controll each other, also they compete for skilled and educated immigrants and enterpreneuers against each other.
and for capital of course.
russians kill ex agents, in order to prevent them selling secrets about russia in the uk
the agent should have known what he was doing.