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Navalny Gets Skripaled
Yawn! was my first reaction when I read this. Couldn't they come up with a more believable fairy tale?
The German government says tests performed on samples taken from Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny showed the presence of the Soviet-era nerve agent Novichok.
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Chancellor Angela Merkel’s spokesman, Steffen Seibert, said in a statement Wednesday that testing by a special German military laboratory had shown proof of “a chemical nerve agent from the Novichok group.”
Novichok, a Soviet-era nerve agent, was used to poison former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Britain. It is a cholinesterase inhibitor, part of the class of substances that doctors at the Charite initially identified in Navalny.
Funny how Novichok, the "military grade", "most deadly" poison, never kills anyone.
Where are, by the way, the Skripals? Will Navalny now get vanished just like they were?
Other questions one might ask (and will never get answered):
- If the Russian state or "Putin" has poisoned Navalny why was he allowed to be flown out of the country?
- No traces of any unusual substances have been found by the two Russian laboratories which analyzed the blood of the sick Alexei Navalny. Why?
- While Navalny was allegedly exposed to such stuff why was no one else around him hurt by it?
- Why was the German government so eager to get Navalny to Berlin?
- Who has the lead in this anti-Russian information operation? The MI6, the CIA or the Germany BND?
My sense is that the Navalny incident, or at least what is made of it, is a reaction to the failure of the U.S. run color revolution attempt in Belarus. "Russia" must be punished for this.
The hospital in Omsk still has the original blood samples of Navalny.
Is there a neutral international laboratory that could retest those?
This “poisoning” is so patently absurd it is painful to discuss, but apparently we must. It is ridiculous to think, even if poisoned, that the Kremlin would be involved, as Navalny was a very dim star who was already falling fast of his own accord–plus, as with the Skripal nonsense, the timing couldn’t be worse in relation to the Nordstream II completion (which the US had sworn to stop by any means necessary). Yes, Navalny had enemies galore, but not the Kremlin and the logistics involved in a poisoning, as others have noted, would have made a teatime poisoning the least likely time and way to whack him.
The first clue it’s BS is poisoning in general, and “Novichok” in particular. Again, the logistics of any poisoning would make it about the most complicated possible way to make an attempt on him, and a nerve agent would have had him in convulsions before he could set down his tea cup, and dead minutes later. But the western intelligence services did learn something from Skripals. That case bore all the hallmarks of an MI6 op worked up on the fly–even the Brits surely aren’t that incompetent. In hindsight, it was probably a hastily thrown together op to prevent the Skripals from passing information (about Steele or PD false flags in Syria?) to the two Russians sent to retrieve it; or the two agents were bringing visas, etc. for Skripal to be repatriated to Russia where he could give such info. At any rate, they were hastily tranquilized, under the watchful eye of Her Majesty’s head nurse, so they could be whisked from the scene. It was only then that some boffin noted that it would be a great time to jack with the Russian-hosted World Cup, as well as reinforce support for sanctions which was fading fast. This explains the ever-evolving fairy tale–it was made up as it went, and changed every time someone pointed out a logical impossibility.
A big mistake that was made was to actually send purported blood samples to “independent labs” and otherwise involve scientists with at least some professionalism. They first declined government pressure to specify it was a “Russian nerve agent,” and later a whistle blower leaked that the tests showed both appropriately degraded tranquilizer and pristine novichok-type agent. Embarrassing, but luckily the press was on orders to report nothing, so that died. But the lesson was learned. So now, when an agitation is needed as a last resort to thwart NS2, this is trotted out again. Only now note that it is a pure accusation and demand that the Kremlin prove its innocence. Independent tests? I can’t imagine there have been any tests at all in Germany…remember, tests could lead to a whistleblower. The accusation is enough, and the precepts of presumption of innocence and ability to see the evidence and confront accusers are completely ignored, as any of those could lead to a quick debunking. In a way, Novichok accusations have become the perfect PR weapon–no evidence required, and no good way for Russia to prove the negative.
The fact that Navalny set the stage with previous remarks implying that he might be a target, and Germany having such a prompt and complete plan means this was a pre-meditated op. Either Navalny knew (from experience?) that his health condition made him susceptible to a medical emergency if he intentionally starved himself, or more likely since he had a timely trip to the toilet he had been provided with something he had been assured would make it look like he was having a medical emergency, and to play it up when he felt it coming on. They couldn’t avoid him receiving brief treatment in Russia, but obviously it was pre-planned to extricate him as quickly as possible. And why to Germany? I don’t think this was about Belarus, simply because that was more of a color revolution lite that actually went slightly better than expected by the West, but I’d say they were really assuming they’d take a sustained operation to bring down Lukeshenko. Remember, the Ukraine color revolutions started clear back in 2004, but then waxed and waned before the coup de gras was administered ten years later. And if this was really the focus, why not have him flown to Poland? No, most of what the US demands of its underlings is related to money, and the NS2 was the most pressing issue and the one most related to Germany. I do think trying to throw a wrench in Russia’s Sputnik vaccine is a happy bonus, but again Germany wasn’t threatening to buy that vaccine, so if that was the #1 cause why wasn’t Navalny flown to England (home of the actual vaccine competitor)?
It is not out of the question, as William Gruff posited, that the Germans are just playing along with this MI6/CIA plan, because orders, but won’t actually follow through with NS2 disruption. But Merkle is clearly co-opted (remember how she was positively enraged when Obama’s NSA was caught tapping her private phone, and threatened all kinds of things, but a couple of days later suddenly went silent and everything was fine? Clearly they have whatever they need on her). Should be interesting.
Posted by: J Swift | Sep 3 2020 17:15 utc | 243
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