Haha.

What a shocking development…!

The Guardian:

Western leaders have held Vladimir Putin directly responsible for the death of the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, as the US president, Joe Biden, called it “yet more proof of Putin’s brutality”.

I thought “brutality” was too harsh – but then I saw this photo of how he died:

We have to say it, folks: brutal.

Navalny, 47, died while being held in a jail about 40 miles north of the Arctic Circle, where he had been sentenced to 19 years under a “special regime”.

“Make no mistake, Putin is responsible for Navalny’s death,” Biden said in remarks from the White House on Friday.

The death of Navalny, once Putin’s most significant political challenger, is a watershed moment for Russia’s shattered pro-democracy movement, which has largely been jailed or driven into exile since the Ukraine invasion of 2022.

What happened to Andrew Anglin and weev?

Where is Julian Assange?

Where is Coach Red Pill?

Where is Ricky Vaughn?

How many felonies is Donald Trump charged with?

This shit about how Russia suppresses democracy is absolutely pointless nonsense. No government allows people to agitate against it, the US simply claims it does while very obviously killing, imprisoning, exiling, or otherwise destroying anyone who agitates against them.

Though Navalny and his many supporters expected he could die behind bars, few thought it would be so soon. Reports of his death sent a shockwave of anger and disbelief through the ranks of his supporters, including his family.

Navalny’s death raises questions about what tools the west still has to constrain or punish Putin, who has faced sanctions since 2022 and has been indicted by the international criminal court for the abduction of Ukrainian children.

Biden in 2021 promised “devastating” consequences for Russia if Navalny were to die behind bars. However, it is not clear what could restrain Putin from a further crackdown on Navalny’s supporters in Russia and abroad.

Maybe they should just go ahead and open the box?

It’s a tool, right? I mean, if it’s the only way to save democracy, they might as well open the box.

Right?

Russia has claimed Navalny died of natural causes. In a statement, the federal penitentiary service for the region where Navalny was incarcerated said he “felt unwell after a walk and almost immediately lost consciousness”.

“All necessary resuscitation measures were carried out but did not yield positive results,” the statement said. “The paramedics confirmed the death of the convict.” The Kremlin said Putin had been informed but had no further information.

After a walk, huh?

Physical exercise?

Then he experienced a blood clot?

Interesting.

Western reaction was swift, as top officials from the US and Europe accused the Kremlin of causing Navalny’s death. The Foreign Office summoned the Russian embassy in London, adding “we hold the Russian authorities fully responsible.”

The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, said: “His death in a Russian prison and the fixation and fear of one man only underscores the weakness and rot at the heart of the system that Putin has built. Russia is responsible for this.”

Who’s responsible for Coach Red Pill?

Who’s responsible for Assange?

This is all just so fucking gay. Even if Putin personally performed a Mortal Kombat fatality on Navalny out of sheer malice, that does not confirm American moral superiority.

Putin’s press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, responded angrily, calling western leaders’ remarks “absolutely outrageous and absolutely unacceptable”.

In Moscow, St Petersburg and other cities across Russia, small groups of Russians braved strict anti-protest laws and laid flowers at makeshift memorials to Navalny. More than 100 people were arrested, according to OVD-Info, a Russian rights group that tracks political arrests and offers legal aid.

Oh, jeez.

Just fucking shoot these people.

They are gays, they’re neo-Nazis, they’re foreign agents, they are attempting to subvert the nation and sabotage the war effort.

Bang bang, ha?

Navalny was alive two days ago, whining about how he didn’t have money for the commissary.

So, what happened?

What is the theory that the West is even promoting?

It’s not worth even considering the thinking, as there is no thinking, it is all just “Russia is evil” nonsense.

Well.

No Russian ever called me “goy.”

🚨🇺🇸🇷🇺 As the deep state sheds crocodile tears over the DEATH of their treasured CIA asset Alexei Navalny, they are engaging in the illegal imprisonment, torture & murder of an actual heroic truth-teller: JULIAN ASSANGE. pic.twitter.com/yI6WDPwLrv

— Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 (@jacksonhinklle) February 16, 2024

On Monday, some doctors in Germany allegedly praised the treatment of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny by Russian doctors, who said he wasn’t poisoned. Now, they’re saying they do not agree with these doctors. They’re saying he was poisoned.

They waited 24 hours before announcing this, and it looked like there was some hope that they wouldn’t do it. But they’re doing it.

The situation is now going to play out exactly as it was laid out.

CBC News:

Tests conducted on Russian dissident Alexei Navalny at a German hospital indicate that he was poisoned, but doctors said Monday they do not believe his life is at immediate risk.

The Charite hospital said in a statement that the team of doctors who have been examining Navalny since he was flown from Siberia and admitted Saturday have found the presence of “cholinesterase inhibitors” in his system.

Cholinesterase inhibitors are a broad range of substances that are found in several drugs but also pesticides and nerve agents. However, doctors at Charite said at the moment the specific substance to which Navalny was exposed is not yet known.

“The patient is in an intensive care unit and is still in an induced coma. His health is serious, but there is currently no acute danger to his life,” the hospital said in a statement.

Navalny remained in critical but stable condition at the Berlin hospital, with special protection details on hand to ensure his safety, German officials said.

Berlin police and federal agents are posted at the downtown Charite hospital after Navalny, 44, was flown to Germany on Saturday from Siberia after much wrangling over whether he was was stable enough to be transported.

Both Germany and France had extended offers to treat Navalny.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in a statement shortly after the Berlin hospital detailed its initial findings that “in view of Mr. Navalny’s prominent role in the political opposition in Russia, authorities there are now called upon urgently to investigate this crime in detail and in full transparency.”

“Those responsible must be identified and held accountable.”

Yes, we’re quite sure this will turn into a total nightmare.

The American forces are already making angry noises.

The Trump administration has been relatively silent on the incident, but U.S. ambassador to Russia John Sullivan said the Navalny case would be on the agenda for deputy secretary of state Stephen Biegun’s visit to Russia that begins Tuesday.

“With Alexei Navalny in a hospital in Berlin, our dialogue with Russia must include re-emphasizing the importance of free speech and civil society,” he told reporters.

If Navalny is found to have been poisoned “that would represent a crucial moment in Russia,” he said.

“The Russian people deserve to see that anybody who would have been involved in a matter like that be held accountable.”

Doctors in Russia continue to claim there was no poison in his system.

Russian doctors on Monday said two laboratories found no poisonous substances in his system.

“If we had found poisoning confirmed by something, it would have been much easier for us,” said Anatoly Kalinichecnko, deputy chief doctor of the Omsk Ambulance Hospital No. 1, where Navalny was treated.

“But we received a final conclusion from two laboratories that no toxic chemicals that can be considered poisons or by-products of poisons were found.”

The hospital’s chief doctor, Alexander Murakhovsky, rejected allegations made by Navalny’s team that doctors in Omsk had been acting in co-ordination with Russia’s security services.

“We were treating the patient, and we saved him,” Murakhovsky said Monday. “There wasn’t and couldn’t be any influence on the patient’s treatment.”

It doesn’t really matter if those doctors were told by the government to lie or not.

This was all set up from the beginning, as the Daily Stormer laid out in an article shortly after the poisoning was announced, and which I don’t have anything to add to presently.

This is obviously fake, anyone can see it is fake. They are using this to further build up tensions with Russia and it is no coincidence that they’re doing it right before the election in the US. One of the major contrasts between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris is that Harris is adamantly pro-war, while Donald Trump is the first president in nearly half a century who didn’t start a new war in his first term.

This situation will allow Harris to highlight that difference, call for war on Russia and call Donald Trump weak for not launching a revenge war in the name of this opposition leader.