Posted on 01/24/2021 10:01:23 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Will Alexei Navalny be the Novichok victim that broke Vladimir Putin’s back?
Navalny, the prominent Russian opposition leader who was poisoned with the powerful Soviet-era nerve agent on a flight from Siberia to Moscow in August, was arrested upon returning to Russia from Germany on Jan. 17.
Now, according to The Washington Post, over 3,300 people were detained Saturday by Russian authorities amid protests sweeping the country.
Among the detained was Navalny’s wife, Yulia Navalnaya. According to Deutsche Welle, Navalnaya has become more politically active since her husband’s poisoning and many have pegged her as a potential opposition leader if her husband were kept in prison.
Navalny returned to Moscow after spending several months in Germany post-poisoning. He was charged with violating the conditions of a suspended sentence in a fraud case. That case was condemned as a political prosecution by, among others, the European Court of Human Rights. This is in addition to new allegations (massive air quotes around that “allegations” bit) that he embezzled funds donated to the opposition.
The Putin regime has, for the most part, been able to contain its dissidents and opposition leaders effectively, either scattering them abroad, jailing them and/or killing them. This time, however, it hasn’t necessarily seemed to have worked, at least not so far.
Navalny, a populist with a strong social media following, galvanized support around the country after his team published a 113-minute video Tuesday highlighting Putin’s corruption and alleging the Russian leader has built a $1 billion compound on the Black Sea, according to The New York Times.
(Excerpt) Read more at westernjournal.com ...
The irony is that given where Russia is today compared to when Putin took power, he would probably win a fair election without the thug stuff.Russians are not known to desert strong leaders despite their faults.
The US embassy in Moscow promoted this on their webpage. They love this Navalny Soros buttboy. The Biden/Obama/Hillary cabal is trying to launch another color revolution and expand the globalist homo cabal into Russia.
I hope Navalny is caught up on his Life Insurance premium payments.
Yes, Putin is not a nice guy. He has been killing, imprisoning and otherwise neutralizing all potential opposition for many years. Pelosi and company wish they could do the same.
There is not much difference between Putin and the Democrat Party.
Who is nice in Russia?
HarrisXiden Faces Its Reckoning After Arresting Political Opponent And Fugitive, Donald J Trump; Thousands Detained as Protests Engulf the Third Special Administrative District of China (formerly the USA).
The fact is, Russia hates the depravity of our culture and doesn’t want it there. Look at this commercial from the last election there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ_5kNnuFss
Very true.
Democrat dream
Navalny rose to prominence in his opposition to Putin when he finished second in the 2013 Moscow Mayoral election, against incumbent mayor Sergey Sobyanin
Navalny claimed fraud - in particular - illegal mail-in ballots, unauthorized counting machines in the districts favorable to Sobyanin, and also very late-counting and returns from those districts favorable to Sobyanin. Navalny also accused Sobyanin, a long-time political operator, of accepting bribes from oligarchs - in the form of shares and property given to his children.
The Russian Supreme Court would not hear his case, claiming observers declared election was fair. Navalny was called a “conspiracy theorist” and “insurrectionist.”
LOL!!! Hey Democrats. Anything sound familiar? Look in the mirror!!
Gee, none of this looks like a CIA op at all. Sarcasm.
The Deep State badly wants war with Russia or to at least weaken it. Until Russia embraces Western-style homo rights democracy, the Deep State will keep increasing the pressure.
Did they think Soetero was kidding when he said he’d have more leeway after the election?
I know it’s de rigueur to claim Putin murdered everyone who opposed him, but take this one case for example. They guy gets sick on an airliner but doesn’t die. They allow him to go to Germany for further treatment. That’s a rather odd assassination technique.
If it was an assassination, he would have just vanished.
People forget, Russia is a dangerous place on a good day if you are in any big business or in politics at any level. When a businessman, journalist, or politician gets whacked, there are about 99 mafioso and other bigger fish that are better suspects than Putin.
But it’s stylish to hang them all on him. Just like the guy and his daughter sprayed with fentanyl in England. He was an associate of Steele and probably participated in the pissgate dossier. It was probably British intel that killed him right under the doorstep of the British chemical warfare base but they tell us it was Russians, using nerve gas.
Ok, cool theory. But if he was such a target of Putin, it would have been way easier to have him killed when he was in a Russian prison, for spying for the UK. But no, Putin, KGB mastermind of Dresden in the 1980s decided the best way to whack him would make more sense to release him to the UK, let him work and live openly for years. Lert his daughter live in Russia and come and go as she pleases, and THEN, one day when he least expects it, have some Russian agent spray nerve gas on him as he sits on a park bench. Way better than just having him shanked in prison one day.
But if British intel says it was an assassination attempt, who are we to question them? Obviously they busted Trump the famous germophobe for hiring Russian prostitutes to urinate on his bed ya know.
Lunacy is everywhere. Trusting British intel and the US State Department is simply willful ignorance.
“according to The Washington Post“
Might as well read, “According to
the CIA.” Now how much you want to believe the CIA on this matter is up to you.
Stop it, you’re getting way to logical, put on your mask and get back to the Two Minute Hate.
My bad lol
Bkmk
“But no, Putin, KGB mastermind of Dresden in the 1980s decided the best way to whack him would make more sense to release him to the UK, let him work and live openly for years. Le[r]t his daughter live in Russia and come and go as she pleases, and THEN, one day when he least expects it, have some Russian agent spray nerve gas on him as he sits on a park bench”
Actually, this is the KGB/SVR preferred method. It let’s potential “traitors” know that they have a long reach and a very long memory. A quick shank job in Lubyanka doesn’t send the same message.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.