Interestingly Americans when confronted with many of the facts and observations you catalogue and comment on immediately retreat to the Navalny Skripals cases.
So here’s my brief summary.
Navalny, a vocal critic of the regime and direct political opposition to Putin, who could have been silently murdered any old time, falls ill.
1) it happens in the most public place possible, an airport and passenger flight, guaranteeing international publicity whereas he could just have gone missing.
2) he is cared for in Russia where he survives
3) he and his family ask for a second opinion and Russia unhesitatingly sends him to Germany
4) Novichok, a poison associated with Russia is detected.
5) he recovers but asks to return to Russia
Novichok is very powerful and there is very little tolerance to it, there being a narrow dosage difference between illness and death. It’s unlikely to have been accidental that he was given what had to be the precise amount that was sub lethal.
Although it was developed in Russia, it is also made in Porton Down, right next to Salisbury in England.
Salisbury is where the Skripals were poisoned. The Skripals also received sublethal doses, guaranteeing maximum publicity, and an enduring media preoccupation. Not only did they recover completely as far as is known but just like Navalny they asked to return to Russia.
If the Russians had poisoned Navalny they would have known it would be detected in Germany.
So the Americans want it both ways. Russia is a global uberdangerous threat to the world , justifying bloated military budgets, invasions, arms sales, putting NATO on steroids, and corrupting its members, but they are incapable of killing an unarmed Navalny at home where all is under their control.
So both Skripals and Navalny get sublethal doses which implies intent to disable and more importantly intent NOT to kill. Novichok is manufactured in Porton Down by the British within shouting distance of where the Skripals were poisoned.
This reeks of false flag. And Navalny’s imprisonment may simply suggest the Russians concluded he must have been colluding with the poisoners.
1. Thank you for the information on the Navalny and Skripals cases. I note that even if the Western propaganda were true--"Putin kills anyone who threatens his rule"--it would still not come close to justifying the horror the US Empire engineered in Ukraine, which is what that propaganda is intended to do. It's sad that so many fall for this flawed reasoning.
2. So many oddities associated with the US Empire seem to have British hands involved. From Trump-Russia collusion stories to poisonings or killings of Russian "dissidents" to the more terroristic type operations carried out by Ukraine in the war.
[Minor edit made immediately after original posting.]
Interestingly Americans when confronted with many of the facts and observations you catalogue and comment on immediately retreat to the Navalny Skripals cases.
So here’s my brief summary.
Navalny, a vocal critic of the regime and direct political opposition to Putin, who could have been silently murdered any old time, falls ill.
1) it happens in the most public place possible, an airport and passenger flight, guaranteeing international publicity whereas he could just have gone missing.
2) he is cared for in Russia where he survives
3) he and his family ask for a second opinion and Russia unhesitatingly sends him to Germany
4) Novichok, a poison associated with Russia is detected.
5) he recovers but asks to return to Russia
Novichok is very powerful and there is very little tolerance to it, there being a narrow dosage difference between illness and death. It’s unlikely to have been accidental that he was given what had to be the precise amount that was sub lethal.
Although it was developed in Russia, it is also made in Porton Down, right next to Salisbury in England.
Salisbury is where the Skripals were poisoned. The Skripals also received sublethal doses, guaranteeing maximum publicity, and an enduring media preoccupation. Not only did they recover completely as far as is known but just like Navalny they asked to return to Russia.
If the Russians had poisoned Navalny they would have known it would be detected in Germany.
So the Americans want it both ways. Russia is a global uberdangerous threat to the world , justifying bloated military budgets, invasions, arms sales, putting NATO on steroids, and corrupting its members, but they are incapable of killing an unarmed Navalny at home where all is under their control.
So both Skripals and Navalny get sublethal doses which implies intent to disable and more importantly intent NOT to kill. Novichok is manufactured in Porton Down by the British within shouting distance of where the Skripals were poisoned.
This reeks of false flag. And Navalny’s imprisonment may simply suggest the Russians concluded he must have been colluding with the poisoners.
1. Thank you for the information on the Navalny and Skripals cases. I note that even if the Western propaganda were true--"Putin kills anyone who threatens his rule"--it would still not come close to justifying the horror the US Empire engineered in Ukraine, which is what that propaganda is intended to do. It's sad that so many fall for this flawed reasoning.
2. So many oddities associated with the US Empire seem to have British hands involved. From Trump-Russia collusion stories to poisonings or killings of Russian "dissidents" to the more terroristic type operations carried out by Ukraine in the war.
[Minor edit made immediately after original posting.]