Discussion: Investigators: Nemtsov Possibly A 'Sacrificial Victim' To Create Unrest

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No surprise Putin’s approval rating remains above 80% notwithstanding the collapse in oil prices, a resulting near banking and financial collapse also exacerbated by war with Ukraine and the Western sanctions, and a flight of ruble currency from Russia. Obviously there is no permission to speak or vote freely when someone is jailed for distributing opposition Party rally leaflets and opposition leaders are shot dead in the street.

In America, an unnecessary war and near banking and financial collapse cost a president to go from 90% approval on 9/22/01 to 25% approval by November, 2008, a year he was not even invited to speak at his Party’s convention… but no one was arrested for distributing opposition Party literature, let alone anyone shot for leading the political opposition. So no one is afraid to show and support opposition candidates.

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The comically inept Russian propaganda trolls are crawling all over the comment sections of news outlets across the world on this one. The fact that they felt the need to hit the comments on RT tells you how little confidence Putin’s propagandists have in being able to cram this one down the throats of even the most credulous.

*Update

Oy. Who knew they had one here?

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The conservatives may want to rethink their wishes that Obama was more like Putin. If Obama was more like Putin, those most critical of Obama could end up very dead in the next 22 months.

I expect to see a story similar to the following evolve from some Russian source and the trolls will repeat it:

Nemtsov was murdered by a violent neo-fascist Ukrainian hit squad. The assassination plot was choreographed by the American CIA. Russian investigators said witnesses claim the driver of the white car was a dark haired woman.
She was heard yelling, “fuck the Russians” in English as she sped away. Sources say she resembled Victoria Nuland.

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Taking coals to Newcastle.

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“Vladimir Putin has ruled Russia with three things: money, propaganda and terror,” Judah wrote.

“Now the money is running out, the equation has shifted. Today, Russia is ruled mostly through propaganda and terror.”

from http://www.rferl.org/content/nemtsov-analysis/26874842.html

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I can think of no reason why Putin, whose approval rating is high and who is an astute politician, would engineer this murder knowing that he would be the first suspect. It’s far more likely that this was a false flag operation engineered by American neocons who want to paint Putin as the next Stalin in order to rekindle the cold war, realizing that rag-tag Muslim terrorists are no longer enough to cause Americans to want to support another doubling of the so-called defense budget.

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Don’t be any sillier than you can help.

Putin is a clown: I’m hiding, I’m hiding and no one knows where for all they can see are my toes and my hair.

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With the dozens of poisonings, shootings, plane crashes and jailing of Putin’s opponents and critics over the last 14 years, Putin does not need any help to look like Stalin. He’s doing a fine job discrediting himself.

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Maybe we should send Dubya over there to have a second look into Putin’s eyes… for a second opinion, so to speak.

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Seems to me the Republicans are running Russia too.

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Alex Jones is looking for some copy writers.

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On the other hand, if you substitute “KGB black ops mentality sociopath surrounded by syncophants who’s systematically eliminated every last vestige of the rule of law, has never once experienced personal consequences for his actions, has no institutional limits on his conduct, and envisions himself as a ‘man of action’” for “astute politician,” you don’t really have to go down the “false flag” rabbit hole, Alice.

No form of credulous idiocy more embarrassing that that facile hipster oh-so-worldly-wise cynicism that is so shallow, uninformed and reactionary that it invariably circles all the way back around to naivete.

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Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the exiled former oil tycoon who spent a decade in prison after challenging Putin

It should be noted that he spent a decade in prison for fraud after he succeeded in stealing the state’s oil company for himself. This happened during the Yeltsin years with his neo-liberal “reforms”. Nemtsov was Yeltsin’s deputy during that time and was closely involved in the privatization of public property. That is why in recent years Nemtsov’s approval ratings had dropped to 1% since the Russian people have no interest in seeing a repeat of these liberals ever returning to power.

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