Well I wish I could say this is a surprise, but this is unfortunately the seeming norm in Russian politics.
Now the usual bets as to which poison was used. Maybe Novochok again, or ricin, or something more exotic?
I'm more curious about who did it. That idiot Navalny is basically god's gift to Putin and guarantee that his faction would be a marginalized fringe group. So it's either somebody in the lower rungs of government trying to impress higher ups or one of Navalny's allies decide it is time for him to stop being idiot and start being martyr.
Well,comrade Putin said, that who once was in KGB,always would be,so - yes.You mean FSB?
I'm more curious about who did it. That idiot Navalny is basically god's gift to Putin and guarantee that his faction would be a marginalized fringe group. So it's either somebody in the lower rungs of government trying to impress higher ups or one of Navalny's allies decide it is time for him to stop being idiot and start being martyr.
This Novichok poison is a real weaksauce, everyone known to be poisoned by it made a full recovery so far, ricin is much bette.
That was my thinking too when I first heard this happened; a lot of powerful people in the west are desperate to paint Russia as a re-emerging threat.Hmmm, this doesn't seem like Putins style, i'm gonna guess it was a western intel agency due to how convenient things worked out. Thinking about it, it's the only thing that makes much sense outside the obvious narrative.
This guy seems like a clown Putin would want to keep around. Plus there is plenty of motive to do this. It hurts Putin's rep,the opposition gets riled up, guy becomes a martyr and the west looks good helping him, russian intel looks incompetent which considering they are the successor ageny to the KGB i sincerely doubt they are this incompetent. The russians get paid back for the poisonings they did do and reminded it can happen to them. Too many things benefit globalhomo inc imo.
It's just too many things coincidentally benefit globalism for me not o be suspicious. The western three letters are morally bankrupt enough and machivelian enough to do it. I bet all of the big politicians in Russia are much better protected than an opposition leader too.That was my thinking too when I first heard this happened; a lot of powerful people in the west are desperate to paint Russia as a re-emerging threat.
Neither scenario paints the Russians as being very competent; either they failed at stopping a false flag attack, or they failed at poisoning a guy whom they really had no reason to poison in the first place.This would imply then that the Russian Security Services are so incompetent as to allow foreign agents to enter Navalny's Hotel Room or whatever that he had in the middle of Tomsk apply the Soviet developed nerve agent in his underwear and were canny enough not to apply a lethal dose and then leave no incriminating evidence of their involvement in the attempt.
Most of the time there's forms of evidence that sprout up in foreign assassination or attack missions. There was with Litvienko, there was with Kashoggi, and the Mossad targets in Iran, and of al-Mabhouh in Dubai by Mossad as well. Hotels and airports have things like cameras and the like, and there's usually physical chains of evidence if you commit these operations abroad, especially in urban locations. If a Foreign Agent(s) was operating in the middle of Habitable Siberia, then the Russian Security Services should be competent enough to at least of found some sort of evidence I would imagine by now. Even if they were working with Navalny and/or his staff there'd still be questions of handling and transferring such a dangerous substance.
AFAIK (I haven't looked into it) not even the Russians have conjectured such a thing as an explanation. So if it is true that it's a falseflag by the West, that means Russian Security Services were either incompetent in this regard (far moreso then the more widely accepted story of it being done by the Russians) or the Russians are suppressing the information/destroying the evidence because??? They're intimidated by the Westerners?
It wouldn't take all of that to do it, simple time released poison in his coffe before the agent bails. By the time it's obvious he's poisoned the agent could be back at home in America watching the new's report it. Also as an opposition leader it's doubtful he has much serious security.This would imply then that the Russian Security Services are so incompetent as to allow foreign agents to enter Navalny's Hotel Room or whatever that he had in the middle of Tomsk apply the Soviet developed nerve agent in his underwear and were canny enough not to apply a lethal dose and then leave no incriminating evidence of their involvement in the attempt.
Most of the time there's forms of evidence that sprout up in foreign assassination or attack missions. There was with Litvienko, there was with Kashoggi, and the Mossad targets in Iran, and of al-Mabhouh in Dubai by Mossad as well. Hotels and airports have things like cameras and the like, and there's usually physical chains of evidence if you commit these operations abroad, especially in urban locations. If a Foreign Agent(s) was operating in the middle of Habitable Siberia, then the Russian Security Services should be competent enough to at least of found some sort of evidence I would imagine by now. Even if they were working with Navalny and/or his staff there'd still be questions of handling and transferring such a dangerous substance.
AFAIK (I haven't looked into it) not even the Russians have conjectured such a thing as an explanation. So if it is true that it's a falseflag by the West, that means Russian Security Services were either incompetent in this regard (far moreso then the more widely accepted story of it being done by the Russians) or the Russians are suppressing the information/destroying the evidence because??? They're intimidated by the Westerners?