US intelligence agencies are now admitting that Putin likely did not order opposition leader Navalny's death. : worldnews

[-] PosadistInevitablity@hexbear.net 46 points 4 months ago

You’re telling me the Kremlin didn’t have to assassinate their own prisoner to stop a prisoner exchange that was entirely up to them?!

[-] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 31 points 4 months ago

Shocking right!

[-] cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml 42 points 4 months ago

Soooo...are the collective west mainstream media and western politicians going to apologize for making the accusation?

[+] czech@lemm.ee -33 points 4 months ago

Putin merely banished him to hard labor in an arctic gulag. Temps were said to not be colder than -32C. His death is an unfortunate coincidence and had nothing to do with the conditions Putin forced on him, comrade.

[-] REEEEvolution@lemmygrad.ml 25 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Considering Navalny was to be exchanged for a russian spy, I don't believe that his death was intended. His location propably was chosen because it would isolate him and prevent any contact with his handlers.

[-] cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 4 months ago

Don't do the crime if you can't do the time.

[-] MarxMadness@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 4 months ago

Delusional

[-] CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 4 months ago

Find me any place in Russia that doesn't go below -32C in the winter. Or are you saying Russia is right to have annexed Crimea, so they can have access to warmer climates and build prisons there?

[-] Shrike502@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 4 months ago

Chechnya, probably

[-] xkyfal18@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Critical support for comrade Putin in his struggle against nazis 👍

[-] Mzuark@lemmygrad.ml 24 points 4 months ago

I'm going to assume that most people who reply to this article are suddenly going to doubt US intelligence because their hate for Putler trumps all common sense.

[-] porcupine@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 4 months ago

They'll refuse to engage with it just like they did when Comey and Mueller consistently failed to give them the answers they wanted. Most Democrats still believe in their hearts that the Steele dossier is real, and they'd rather annihilate the planet in nuclear fire than admit that they've spent the last decade in a self-defeating delusion.

[-] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 4 months ago

😄

[-] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 16 points 4 months ago

💀

[+] happybadger@hexbear.net -8 points 4 months ago

I don't think there was ever any need to. VX nerve gas will permanently inhibit the on/off switch for your entire nervous system, like weaponised Parkinson's or multiple sclerosis. It rots your brain while hyper-stimulating and/or paralysing every nerve in your body. The novichok agents they got Navalny with are several times more potent and it was a concentrated dose that he drank. After that he was walking dead in the same way a highly irradiated person is. I'm surprised he survived that long, much less with shitty prison healthcare.

[-] REEEEvolution@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 4 months ago

The problem is that since the end of the cold war several countries have the novichock formular, not just Russia and other former SSRs. It is well known that France, the US, Gb and Israel went through to production facilities with checkbooks in hand. Navalny got attacked basically next door for a british chemical weapon manufactory...

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