In short, what happened in the West this afternoon was a new campaign to vilify Vladimir Putin on the world stage based on a death which was, if I may quote former British PM Theresa May, ‘highly likely’ to have been perpetrated by British Intelligence for this very purpose.
The above is an ambiguous sentence.
Note the word “quote”.
What is quoted?
Answer: only two words, ‘highly likely’.
That is it. Theresa May said ‘highly likely’.
The author, Gilbert Doctorow, then inserted his own highly likely conclusion.
I would stay away from using this as it can cause unnecessary confusion.

Posted by: librul | Feb 17 2024 14:21 utc | 104

N had ill health . some organs were affected by his various perhaps neurotic addictive meds regime.
Sooo.. Russian guards . russian inmates…. perhaps incentivied by potential reward ….perhaps N.vulnerable to supply drugs of dubious authenticity . perhaps pressurised by blackmail …perhaps pressure brought onto by their relatives..from Ukraine ..no one else seems to have mentioned this yet? Perhaps N. sent to this far away place fr his protection from such vircumstanced.. just took a little while to find a manner ways neans of other inmates guards etc to get to him……any recent arrivals…change in staff rota as such????

Posted by: Jo | Feb 17 2024 14:24 utc | 106

Putin once again proves the opposition (it is laughable to call a few hundred people the opposition—particularly when they are locked away) is no match for a modern police state that regulates when and how people can assemble.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/over-110-people-detained-across-russia-rallies-memory-navalny-rights-group-2024-02-17/
OVD-Info, which reports on freedom of assembly in Russia, said at least 212 people in 21 cities across Russia had been detained at spontaneous rallies and vigils as of 1127 GMT on Saturday.

Posted by: zargo | Feb 17 2024 14:29 utc | 108

@Zargo:
“I may quote former British PM Theresa May, ‘highly likely’ to have been perpetrated by British Intelligence for this very purpose.”
I’ve been searching for this quote. Other than Gilbert, I find no reference anywhere. If B is going to posts others analysis and comment favorable on that post, B did highlight this wanting to be sure we read it, it seems he should post a link to the source of the comment.
Any pretense to objectivity by B has dissolved into simply cheerleading and repeating Putin propaganda talking points. Will some one post the origin of Mays comments?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiJtCrQfs14

Posted by: Moscow Exile | Feb 17 2024 14:36 utc | 110

I’m entirely with the first point by Debsisdead @11. Regardless of who specifically snuffed Navalny, the Russians come off looking like absolute bumbling fools. Jaw-dropping incompetence. One can only marvel at how helplessly inept the clownish Russian authorities are. As with Zelenshyyyiii, Navalny’s ultimate fate has been discussed here and elsewhere in detail. Armchair geopolitical analysts the world over knew he was going to eventually be offed.
Meanwhile, Russian authorities are doubtless scratching their heads wondering “I don’t get it. Who would actually want to kill him?”
As naive as newborn babies.
The second point by Debsisdead @11 I am not so sure about: …how in hell did the englanders manage to penetrate the security of one of the most secure camps in Russia?”
Was the camp really so secure? Indeed, did it have any security whatsoever? Early reports were that Navalny “went for a walk” then came back feeling ill (maybe he ate some roadkill or something like an unsupervised dog while out on his walk?).
What kind of prison can the inmates just wander off for a walk unsupervised? Children’s summer camps have better security than that. There is hell to pay if any kids get out of sight of the staff at summer camp, but there is a period during which Navalny was “out for a walk” that the useless prison guards don’t know what happened to him? How the phuque is that even possible?
Reality: there was no security at all at this prison camp. None. Navalny “went for a walk” and met up with his CIA/MI6 handlers in the woods. They probably just pinned him to the ground and did something as simple as injecting air into an artery with a hypodermic, then let him go. Navalny makes it back to the camp before collapsing from the embolism. Navalny has a few moments of lucidity before going unconscious, but would he use that opportunity to say anything about meeting up with western spooks in the woods? Of course not. What is most telling is that he didn’t say he was accosted by Russian agents.
Important piece of evidence: Something happened to Navalny on his curiously unsupervised walk, but it is something Navalny was unwilling to share with camp staff. Obviously he met someone or someones, but what someones would he meet with that he would want to keep secret? I think the non-troll crowd here know the answer already.

Posted by: William Gruff | Feb 17 2024 14:37 utc | 112

Stuxnet

But how would the CIA kill somebody in a remote Russian prison?
Posted by: Afro | Feb 17 2024 14:16 utc | 103

With unlimited resources, everything is possible. These are the same people who developed Stuxnet

Posted by: Petri Krohn | Feb 17 2024 14:39 utc | 114

“He urged Republican lawmakers to pass a $95 billion dollar aid package for Ukraine that has stalled after its approval in the senate, saying “history is watching.””
Ah… Now it becomes abundantly clear why the west had this CIA stooge bumped-off now, Navalny’s passing could then be used as a big stick to beat those over the head opposed to sending the $95 billion dollar aid package to Ukraine.
No doubt Navalny’s demise will also be used by Westminster and Brussels to send more of everything to Ukraine at the great expense of European and UK citizens, the suffering of US citizens is a no- brainer.

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Feb 17 2024 14:40 utc | 116

Posted by: Moscow Exile | Feb 17 2024 14:36 utc | 110
This is a five year old quote unrelated (except in the minds of those in the know ) to Navalny’s recent bout of SDS.
The allegation is MI6 killed Navalny yesterday and the context of the article shared by B clearly indicates that is what May was allegedly referring too.

Posted by: zargo | Feb 17 2024 14:43 utc | 118

is that a billing statement?
good work if you can get it.
see Jeffrey Epstein.

Posted by: Not Ewe | Feb 17 2024 14:51 utc | 120

@Jo 109 | Feb 17 2024 14:29 utc |
…anyone please can post that N. medical report from the Russian doctors examination…
Russia Today from Feb.16 writes that the forensic medical examination is not yet available. The cause of death is being established. However, according to an RT Russian service source, the opposition figure had a blood clot.
Link to Russia Today

Posted by: iguana | Feb 17 2024 14:56 utc | 122

“I don’t get it. Who would actually want to kill him?”
As naive as newborn babies.

Not so naive. You think this will change the calculus on Ukraine aid? That seems to be the hope of the NAFO types. Unfortunately for them the same tiny attention span that often plays in their favor won’t here. Noone in the public knows or cares who the fuck Navalny is. They care that their streets are besieged with homeless addicts.

Posted by: Doctor Eleven | Feb 17 2024 14:58 utc | 124

https://t.me/Lunay14/15075

…
It is clear that Alexei, a bright but politically spent man, was spanked by his guides. I won’t say “owners”, I will say “partners” – assuming that Navalny led a conditionally independent party within the one launched by the globalists. The share of independence is difficult to estimate. And, in principle, there is no need.
It is bitter to look at his wife, who, by agreeing to speak at the Munich Conference, signed his sentence for 02/16/24. I think she already understands this now. She understands everything about the people with whom her late husband had shady dealings. He understands how stupid it would be for the leadership and intelligence services of our country to eliminate the extremist Navalny. Especially on the day of the conference. Not to mention the pre-election period.
And this is what I will say: the methodology of the CIA-NSA-MI6 and others like it reeks of rottenness. By making such feints, they count on the tacit acceptance of their version of the incident by the “rest of the civilized world.” He endured the world of those who depended on them. Exactly as it was with the bombing of “Streams”. But it’s just vile and disgusting. Because they killed “one of their own.” There is neither style, nor adventure, nor this James Bond enthusiasm. It’s just plain rotten stuff.
The goal is clear – to try to crumple up the media figure of Putin, who has turned his shoulders, to erase or at least crumple the noospheric fresco that his interview with Carlson became (one would like to say “who lives on the roof”). And, of course, to distract from the assault on Avdeevka, from how the Nazis from the changed Azov brand are boiling in the cauldron there. This backdrop makes their “security conference” look like pointless, sad shit.
And they have nothing up their sleeves except Lekha Navalny. Which is sacrificed to the Munich Conference. Making his own wife an unknowing accomplice to the murder.
It is interesting that Vladimir Putin’s speech at the Munich Conference in 2007 began the process of clarifying the hu-iz-hu in this life. And it ended with Yulia Navalnaya’s speech at the Munich Conference in 2024.
The whole world, even the world of “civilized toleraters” now understands who can deal with and who cannot.
One thing is really sad. That the enemy got Navalny on our territory, in a guarded facility.

Posted by: anon2020 | Feb 17 2024 14:59 utc | 126

No one in Russia cares about that drug addled foreign asset freak and the brainwashed western public will forget about it all by Monday. The death will be investigated as thoroughly as Gonzo Lira’s death I’m sure. Wait! Ukronazi’s just lost their mighty fortress in Avdiivka! LMFAO!

Posted by: nook | Feb 17 2024 15:02 utc | 128

It seems to me that discussing Navalny is a waste of time and neurons that could be applied to more important things, like cleaning the bathroom. Regardless of the specifics of how he died and who might be involved, the over-arching pattern is one of controlled narrative change by the apex of the western PTB. Something on the scale of killing Navalny, if that’s what happened, is not the action of rogue actors, it’s the action of the core of the Deep State, and that core is promoting Tucker Carlson. The western narrative on Navalny is not an attempt to undermine their narrative as presented via Carlson, its just part of shaping the change from hot war to cold. Pulling back from WWIII, but still reminding us that Putin = bad. This is not so much for the benefit of the American public, but for that of Europe, as the American elites will be happy to engage economically with Russia again as long as the specifics serve their purposes, but find it essential to keep Europe from doing so. That is the whole purpose of the war in Ukraine- the isolation and subjugation of Europe. That process is well along, so the ground is being prepared to cool things off and keep just enough russophobia going to keep the Euro-peons in line.
Whether Navalny was killed by MI6, Putin’s chauffeur or died of natural causes, he’s a convenient hook to hang the same narrative on. It doesn’t really matter what actually happened, as long as he’s actually dead. Hmmm… interesting possibilities…

Posted by: Honzo | Feb 17 2024 15:14 utc | 130

Posted by: DunGroanin | Feb 17 2024 13:28 utc | 81
The Chinese policies fromn Deng onwards follow Lenin’s script ever since he pushed the NEP in Soviet Russia and then USSR. This was expanded in the early version of “Socialism in One Country”, championed by Stalin with the theoretical backing of Bukharin.
In short, Lenin made the case of severe backwardness that had to be rectified in a drastic manner. while keeping the hostile imperialists satisfied and in a safe distance. Thus, it was imperative to cooperate with the capitalists, but in a manner that would empower the socialist state. When the latter was sufficiently strong and cohesive, more robust socialist policies could be implemented. But the siege mentality was ever present.
The point of such an approach is that the advance of the socialist state would be more incremental than the rapid industrialization eventually chosen by Stalin. The Chinese communists have studied the theoretical arguments and the actual results, taking into account the international environment after the collapse of the USSR. The policy they have adopted, especially under Xi, follows this political reasoning. This explains the careful handling of western oligarchs, seeking to maximize all possible benefits for the PRC, while maintaining good relations.
If anything, Xi has been a target of vilification propaganda by the liberal vermin precisely because he tightened the leash to those Chinks who were cozying too much with the idea of China becoming a capitalist state and therefore a neoliberal satrapy of the Anglo-American empire.
Now, it would be prudent of the Russians to take some cue from the Chinese who, as it has been pointed, have already gotten theirs from the early Soviets. The one thing I would like to see is for Russia to resolutely break with its own neoliberal baggage, centered on the legacy of the subhuman traitor Yeltsin and his political (and biological) descendants. So far it hasn’t happened, but it must and all levels of government and society.

Posted by: Constantine | Feb 17 2024 15:20 utc | 132

Navalny was no more than a stalking horse for the NATO/EU Nuland/Blinkinsky crowd hoping to overthrow the Russian government so they could progress with their evil plans for the Ukraine.
With V V Putin out of the way, the way would be crystal clear for the ethnic cleansing of the Donbass, and the installation of a permanent anti Orthodox Christian junta in Kieve……..
Without Putin, these plans would have succeeded.
Navalny is now gone, so what will be the next plot by the CIA and MI6?

Posted by: Tobias Cole | Feb 17 2024 15:34 utc | 134

How convenient!!
Navalny dies just as the Ukrainian $60B aid package is stalled totally in the US House of Representatives!
As his wife is one of the key speakers at the Munich Security Conference too!!
This really indicates more CIA and MI6 skullduggery…………

Posted by: Tobias Cole | Feb 17 2024 15:44 utc | 136

Navalny’s death during the Munich Security Conference was more convenience than coincidence. No one bothered to ask Biden or other American power elites about all the political prisoners who die in American prisons. A place Assange will most likely die.

Posted by: Wilikins | Feb 17 2024 15:45 utc | 138

OVD-Info, which reports on freedom of assembly in Russia, said at least 212 people in 21 cities across Russia had been detained at spontaneous rallies and vigils as of 1127 GMT on Saturday.
@Posted by: zargo | Feb 17 2024 14:29 utc | 108
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You mean ti say that the Great Opposition Leader is murdered by the Evil Stalinist Putin regime, protests break out all over the country, and the country’s police could find only 212 people to arrest?
Pretty pathetic if you ask me.

Posted by: malenkov | Feb 17 2024 16:00 utc | 140

BTW, it’s interesting to note that there is always a representative of the NAFO slime in the bar, Inkanafo, now “zargo” etc. Whether the same individual or different ones, the presence of this human detritus is constant and reveals the haemorhoidal butthurt the site has caused them.

Posted by: Constantine | Feb 17 2024 16:19 utc | 142

from Deng onwards
Posted by: Constantine | Feb 17 2024 15:20 utc | 132
I suppose it’s that time of the year to review Landsberger “Deng Theory“, wikiwtf’s magical Three-world model opposed to “Maoist” political concept, and UN 3202 (S-VI)Declaration on the Establishment of a New International Economic Order, 1 May 1974.
Lenin died in 1924. Mao Tse Tung died in 1976. Before he did, presumably he—personifying authoritarian dictatorship that western civilization abhors—instructed his messenger Teng Hsiao-Ping to to prepare the way to uhhh value chain sovereignty across the global south. European-Americans attribute to Teng/Deng a radical break from communism with “Chinese characteristics”, because his part in 1974 as an educator largely is to be ignored —like Resolution 2758— in western imperial doctrine.
I’d like to believe that “first-world” democrats who periodically adopt “third-world” and “banana republic” impostures will sacrifice 5 minutes in their busy, busy struggles to secure their critical material supply chains to read principles for “multipolar” political economy.

[…]
1. The greatest and most significant achievement during the last decades has been the independence from colonial and alien domination of a large number of peoples and nations which has enabled them to become members of the community of free peoples. Technological progress has also been made in all spheres of economic activities in the last three decades, thus providing a solid potential for improving the well-being of all peoples. However, the remaining vestiges of alien and colonial domination, foreign occupation, racial discrimination, apartheid and neo-colonialism in all its forms continue to be among the great obstacles to the full emancipation and progress of the developing countries and all the peoples involved…..
2. The present international economic order is in direct conflict with current development in international political and economic relations. Since 1970, the world economy has experienced a series of grave crises which have had severe repercussions, especially on the developing countries because of their generally greater vulnerability to external economic impulses….
3. All these changes have thrust into prominence the reality of interdependence of all the members of the world community. Current events have brought into sharp focus the realization that the interests of the developed countries and those of the developing countries can no loger be isolated from each other, that there is a close interrelationship between the prosperity of the developed countries, and the prosperity of the international community as a whole depends on the prosperity of its constituent parts. International co-operation for development is the shared goal and common duty of all countries.
[…]

UN 3202 (S-VI) proceeded from Resolution 2758 (1971) which established “the only legitimate representative of China to the United Nations.” It coincided not only with US defeat by Viet Nam, but the OPEC oil embargo which crippled NATO industrialists and the final dissolution of US adhesion to the IMF’s Bretton Woods value system.
AFAIK, the only UN recording of Deng’s April 10, 1974 speech is Mandarin. However, marxist.org archived a transcript in English.

[…]
..At present, the international situation is most favourable to the developing countries and the peoples of the world. More and more, the old order based on colonialism, imperialism and hegemonism is being undermined and shaken to its foundations. International relations are changing drastically. The whole world is in turbulence and unrest. The situation is one of “great disorder under heaven,” as we Chinese put it. This “disorder” is a manifestation of the sharpening of all the basic contradictions in the contemporary world. It is accelerating the disintegration and decline of the decadent reactionary forces and stimulating the awakening and growth of the new emerging forces of the people.
[…]

Posted by: sln2002 | Feb 17 2024 16:49 utc | 144

Perfect timing … Western headlines full of “Navalny” crap
instead of reporting the total Nazi defeat
— oops, sorry .. strategic withdrawal — at Ardivka.

Posted by: Cynic | Feb 17 2024 17:09 utc | 146

Posted by: Debsisdead | Feb 17 2024 8:37 utc | 11
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Your points makes sense to me.
I wonder why the RF sent Navalny to this Arctic prison.
Maybe kind of like sending Napoleon to Elba? The closest thing the Russians have to an island prison?
It seems to bring to mind some of the most disturbing images from Russian/Soviet history: gulags in the frozen wastelands of the far north and far east …

Posted by: Jane | Feb 17 2024 17:26 utc | 148

Sam | Feb 17 2024 7:18 utc | 2
*** When is the world going to hang war criminals Tony liar Blair and Johnson?***
Don’t omit the gloating mass-murderer of Libya — former PM now back as UK Foreign Secretary, and likely future NATO Secretary General …. David Cameron.

Posted by: Cynic | Feb 17 2024 17:34 utc | 150

What will Biden et al. say when (Heaven forfend) Assange dies in prison?

Posted by: lester | Feb 17 2024 17:46 utc | 152

Arch Bungle | Feb 17 2024 9:44 utc | 26
*** Who cares about one useless eater? A hundred Palestinians die in Gaza every day and these politicians bat not an eyelid among them.***
But they are just impediments to US multinational wealth extraction, whereas saint Navalny was rightful Tsar of Russia and had he not been covertly savaged to death by an eight-foot communist penguin might even have become UN Secretary General or a big US television celebrity.

Posted by: Cynic | Feb 17 2024 17:48 utc | 154

Jmaas | Feb 17 2024 13:54 utc | 90
*** The death of Slobodan not a problem for the political west. ***
If he had not very conveniently “died” it would have been a big problem for the political west, since even its own court was about to find him innocent on all charges.

Posted by: Cynic | Feb 17 2024 18:18 utc | 156

Eleven | Feb 17 2024 14:14 utc | 101
*** The largest opposition party in Russia is the Russian Communist Party, led by Gennady Andreyevich Zyuganov. These are who are most likely to take power if Russia Today loses an election. They’re far more hardline about Ukraine. ***
That’s how I would vote if I was Russian.

Posted by: Cynic | Feb 17 2024 18:28 utc | 158

Kefyros | Feb 17 2024 14:14 utc | 102
*** he was killed by a remotely controlled device.***
Widow Navalny?

Posted by: Cynic | Feb 17 2024 18:30 utc | 160

Peter AU1 | Feb 17 2024 15:02 utc | 129–
I stand by what I wrote yesterday. Given what can be done with nanotechnology, he was turned off without needing any “help” as Gruff describes. All the signs of a false flag are present; and as most have noted, he had more “value” dead than alive. The “wife’s” performance is the topper.
I go by what Lavrov said several times yesterday that reinforced what Putin said: Russia is going to do what Russia must do, and it’s up to the West to stop its war against Russia–war is how it’s described now–and make amends. It’s not Russia’s “problem” to solve the West’s problems. However, there’s also another trend and that’s moving DeNazification beyond Ukraine as it’s behavior is seen in many more Western nations. Killing anyone for the purpose of a propaganda gain is a Nazi move, IMO. Russia has absolutely no need to do anything like that as their nation is as solid as any nation can be in Russia’s current circumstances.

Posted by: karlof1 | Feb 17 2024 18:42 utc | 162

West: Navalny is dead…
Long live Navalny! (Mrs.)

Posted by: muttman | Feb 17 2024 18:54 utc | 164

Posted by: Honzo | Feb 17 2024 17:47 utc | 154
You misunderstand me. The issue is not the total liquidation of the oligarchy, but its political and ideological disenfranchisement, effectively transforming it into a class of billionnaires, still able to present a future threat but not able to undermine the country in its current existential fight.
See, there are such folks aplenty in China too, but their wealth is based in actual enterpreneurial activity that benefits the country, not in plundering its already existing industrial infrastructure and natural resources. The latter case is what happened in Russia in the 90s. Worse, unlike China they have political clout and the gall to suggest to Putin not to “isolate” the country from the international economy as it happened in 1917. The fact that Vladimir Potanin (who for a good time was treated favorably by the western sanction regime) felt confident to spout this horsecrap as the Anglo-American empire marshalled its vassals to strangle Russia shows the confidence htese people still have. None of that would be possible in China.
Nor am I suggesting the confrontational attitude of the Soviets on other aspects of domestic policy, such as that of religion. China has carefully avoided this course. But the invalidation of Yeltsin would HOPEFULLY free Putin and most Russians to appreciate the country’s historical role in being the vanguard of the anti-colonial struggle, which, inevitably, is connected with Lenin.
Let me re-emphasize this: the Russians are the only modern imperial nation that de-colonized their empire and proceeded to lead the fight against the colonialists on a global scale. Yet, this monumental political capital is still being wasted out of a perverse complex to defend Yeltsin, which requires the rejection and defamation of the early Soviets, especially Lenin. No rosy view of the USSR is demanded; just giving credit where it is due.
Domestically, this approach would resolutely destroy the ideological underpinings of Russian liberalism, which like all non-western liberalism is the promotion of subhumanity and despicable subservience to the western imperialists. Navalny, the Russian version of Liu Xiaobo (the subhuman biped honored by the west with a Nobel for promoting among the Chinese subservience towards the west), would be publicly despised and not just in Russia, but beyond. He would have been a meme like Juan “the Random” Guaido.
Internationally, it would allow Russia to mobilize on a political and material level all those countries that are opposed to western neocolonialism and the globalist Anglo-American empire. The latter would have been hard pressed by the overt political support towards Russia, whose forces in Ukraine would have been bolstered by large numbers of volunteers, eager for a payback towards those who have been the scourge of their people for so long. Citizenship and grants in the liberated territories would be an added bonus.
All that would require solid ideological foundations of a modern RF, not historical narratives replete with mental gymnastics and laughable revisionism (such as Russia being victorious in WWI before being upended by the Reds or the Russian empire being a voluntary association of nations). It would boost international solidarity and further, would not alienate pro-Russian Ukrainians, who perceived Lenin as a unifying factor between their country and Russia (as witnessed in the anti-Maidan and the subsequent actions of the Ukro-Nazis and their western masters).

Posted by: Constantine | Feb 17 2024 19:08 utc | 166

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Feb 17 2024 9:54 utc | 29
To assassinate Navalny in a prison, where he is surrounded by some of the most dangerous and uncontrollable criminals on earth, is easy:
Just use criminal gangs with connections on the inside.
This is the practice of the ukronazis. Cf. Lira. The “most dangerous and uncontrollable criminals on earth” are not in Russia. That is western propaganda as usual.
The Russians had no reason to kill him, none.

Posted by: Naive | Feb 17 2024 19:23 utc | 168

Simply… “If you’re in a country whose government has had a hand in the persecution of Julian Assange, then you can go ahead and shut the fuck up about Navalny.” ~Caitlin Johnstone

Posted by: Heretical_i | Feb 17 2024 19:42 utc | 170

Naive @ 166, 168:
Thanks for the information and the Telegram link. You may have seen my post @ 28. Unfortunately the link I posted to the Russian-language comments forum has gone dead on me.
Julia Navalnaya’s itinerary over the last couple of weeks, or maybe the last couple of months, should be of interest to Russian security forces. But I doubt now whether she will want to return to Russia for Navalny’s funeral, in case the prison authorities find something odd in the autopsy report, suspect murder and start checking the visitor logs.

Posted by: Refinnejenna | Feb 17 2024 19:53 utc | 172

In support of
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Julia Navalnaya’s itinerary over the last couple of weeks, or maybe the last couple of months, should be of interest to Russian security forces. But I doubt now whether she will want to return to Russia for Navalny’s funeral, in case the prison authorities find something odd in the autopsy report, suspect murder and start checking the visitor logs.
Posted by: Refinnejenna | Feb 17 2024 19:53 utc | 173
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Yes, good summary/perspective…..where is Julia going to go from München?

Posted by: psychohistorian | Feb 17 2024 20:09 utc | 174

Posted by: Constantine | Feb 17 2024 17:43 utc | 152
“It is obvious that the time has come for Russia to intensify the confrontation on the ideological level”
Since I am not privy to the details the current correlation of forces, it is not obvious to me. However, it seems to me that between Putin and Lavrov there is a gradual ramping up of confrontation, but couched in ‘neutral’ terms so that both western and global southern audiences- who are for the most part not Marxists/socialists/Communist, can digest the messages about the western division between the interests of the people and the interests of the capitalists.
when the SMO is over, we shall see what we see, but if I had to guess, this kind of open ideological confrontation would be self-defeating at this time.
and not repeat tiresome mantras about the desire for cooperation with the political descendants of the colonialists and the Nazis. This is an existential struggle, so it must be presented as such and waged accordingly. It is ansolutely imperative to utilize all means available to present the globalist neoliberal west as the misanthropic plague it has become. No compromise or pussyfooting, no expectation for detente, but direct confrontation.

Posted by: Honzo | Feb 17 2024 20:20 utc | 176

Posted by: Constantine | Feb 17 2024 19:08 utc | 167
It seems to me that if there is to be an open ideological struggle against imperialism from Russia, it must begin outside the central government and grow. At this time, for Putin to embrace Communism would be self-defeating, both abroad and at home.
I am in no position to know if such a movement is taking place, it well might be. There are an awful lot of Soviet flags on tanks or being waved by people in the streets.
It’s also important to remember that there are a wide divergence of images in people’s heads of what ‘the Soviet Union’ means. Is it the Lenin period of revolution, but with NEP? Is it the Stalin era of collectivization and rapid industrializing? The Stalin era of the Great Patriotic War? Or the growing institutional corruption that took off with Kruschev? The latter is what a lot of Russians see, so a ‘return of the Soviet Union’ is not the wisest slogan, as Putin emphasizes. He very deliberately focus attention on those things that Russians are nostalgic for. Internally, a lot of historical and ideological clarification is needed to make a return to socialism a realistic option.

Posted by: Honzo | Feb 17 2024 20:33 utc | 178

For more details about the CIA & Co orchestrating the Navalny story, go here:
https://www.thekomisarscoop.com/2023/02/navalny-documentary-nominated-for-march-12-oscar-is-crude-disinformation/
and check out his racist nationalist video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hT0tCSaWZ9Q

Posted by: Lucy Komisar | Feb 17 2024 21:43 utc | 180

Posted by: Refinnejenna | Feb 17 2024 9:52 utc | 28
Massive revelation, if true. The Russians can easily confirm this visit, and if they find poison and can connect poison to foodstuff or medicine.
That will implicate Navalny’s wife for murder, and by extension, western intelligence.
Posted by: unimperator | Feb 17 2024 10:51 utc | 41
First thing the Russians need to establish is the cause of death, if they suspect murder they need to question anyone who had access to Navalny, if the Reich can spend billions on war against Russia i am sure a few million will by some who would sell there own mother for less, i would also be interested to know if that info about his wife is correct.

Posted by: Englishman | Feb 17 2024 21:48 utc | 182

Looks to me like just another case of prison suicide.
Night all.
Posted by: Mark2 | Feb 17 2024 20:51 utc | 180
Sure, his wife told him she is not waiting for him and that she has a lover.

Posted by: Naive | Feb 17 2024 22:03 utc | 184

For the sake of conversation, allow me to introduce a slightly different theory or version of the story.
To the notion that “Russia” or “the Russian government” flubbed the situation, and that he should have been deported or allowed to leave the country for “PR” reasons – keep in mind the fate of others to whom the same or effectively the same treatment was given. Also consider that Russia by now understands that they’re “damned if you do, damned if you don’t.” So it’s possible they thought he’d actually be SAFER and able to be kept alive in this prison colony/camp than in the West (Britain for example?).
If he was allowed to leave, he probably would have been offed much sooner, with another “poisoning” carried out by the usual suspects w/ Porton Down manufactured toxins. Russia and Putin would inevitably be blamed with much bleating by the Mighty Wurlitzer. PR loss for Russia/Putin. Same exact story, different location. Even if he’d died of natural causes due to his known health ailments, it would have been treated the same exact way by the Western mockingbirds.
IF in fact he was taken out, where they clearly failed was in keeping the prison secure enough to prevent contraband from being brought in and/or Navalny being poisoned/murdered against his will while “out on a walk.”
But again, he very well could have simply succumbed to his condition(s) and having been imprisoned, lacked access to needed medical interventions or treatments.
Here’s where the timing comes in. Yes, it was incredibly convenient indeed. But let’s understand that he was a CIA/MI6 asset from the get go and completely expendable except for PR purposes. In this information war, even if he did die of medical non-foul play conditions, there would always have been some big event, Ukro military failure, or conference, US election, what have you, from which attention could have been distracted at the time of Navalny’s death. This is a man who collapsed on a flight due to some sort of medical emergency many years ago now – unless you believe the poisoning yarn. He wasn’t a man in good health.
I’m not sure what to believe, but without detailed further info on the exact conditions at the prison camp, and the comings and goings of visitors (other than his wife), it’s pretty much all speculation. And because he was a very selfish and narcissistic man, I personally am comfortable ruling out him intentionally martyring himself. But again, what do I know?

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Feb 17 2024 22:27 utc | 186

What is sure is that the western leaders and medias have more compassion for one crook and traitor than for thousands of civils massacred in Gaza.
Occidental values, they say too. And of course Putin is found guilty with no proof at all. All propaganda.

Posted by: Naive | Feb 17 2024 22:34 utc | 188

Posted by: Lucy Komisar | Feb 17 2024 21:43 utc | 181
Thank you. Great article. Very long and detailed. Good work!

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Feb 17 2024 22:46 utc | 190

Yuliya Navalnaya is the next Svetlana Tikhanovskaya…for the next Russian elections..
She passed all his husband jail time, for what it seems in the photographs published, jumping from one bed to another, from one oligarch´s to a famous DJ´s…
Navalny was already way too burnt ro repeat, due the poor results in the past elections…they needed to push such insipide blonde through this terrorist attack, thinking that the Russian people will vote for her out of pity, may be?
Because they could not find any other Russian except this clear arrivist, and highly likely narcissist too…

Posted by: Ghost of Mozgovoy | Feb 17 2024 23:02 utc | 192

MSM milking Navany’s death like a herd of Friesians. Oh how convenient. My take in it (assuming it wasn’t just a heart attack or stroke; always possible in a man with a long history of drug taking) is that he was probably poisoned by something in the box of Valentine’s Day goodies brought in by his devoted spouse (do the celebrate that in Russia?). The questions then arise: Did she know? Did HE know? Was it planted on her by western spooks? Did Navalny deliberately martyr himself, or was he martyred? The dramatic timing of the “grieving widow” at the Munich security conference is the giveaway, I think. Not a tear in sight, and that little smirk of triumph…
Shakespeare would have made a feast of this, if the actors had any shred of nobility in them. They don’t.

Posted by: Bernard Davis | Feb 17 2024 23:10 utc | 194

Posted by: Bernard Davis | Feb 17 2024 23:10 utc | 195
Now you got me thinking on that wife visit again. We all know she’s got a new beau and out living the high life in the west. I’m surprised they let her visit. Probably did sneak in a poisonous chocolate for “Valentines Day.” Sure does help her “career” prospects!

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Feb 17 2024 23:28 utc | 196

Skripl’s have a meal, then walk to a park where they sit down and become ill. Navalny goes for a walk and on his return feels ill. I guess the may difference there would be Porton Down having the antidote.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 17 2024 23:47 utc | 198

Jacques Baud on Navalny from last May.
https://www.thepostil.com/navalny-hero-of-the-west/

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Feb 17 2024 23:49 utc | 200