Discussion: Reportedly Killed Russian Journalist Appears At News Conference In Ukraine

Murder not incorporated?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder,_Inc.

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Well, like me, they never show up to the job on time.

Sounds like the police accidentally sent out their press release a day before they were scheduled to do the job. Embarrassing. Still, perhaps he got the message anyway.

I feel very sorry for Babchenko. He will have to spend the rest of his life on alert, never knowing who is out to betray him. Just going out of the house would take an act of bravery and the stress will only build over time.
The only thing that would give him some relief would be if Putin was removed from power, but that doesn’t look likely.

The Guardian was full of disapproving opinion pieces today as well, e.g. By faking Babchenko’s murder, Ukraine has smeared itself

I confess that I am not wholly convinced by this take.

It’s just self-absorbed, self-important, journalistic pique that they were taken in for 24 hours and now think they were made to look foolish by one of their own. The number of them who have spent any significant amount of time with a Russian intelligence target on their foreheads would be zero.

The logic that this somehow credibility argle bargle Russian propaganda coup homina homina blurp is just them trying to make their pique sound high minded, not unlike the outrage over the horrible, vicious “smoky eyes” comment. Russia already blames every awful thing it does on false flag operations of wicked western intelligence agencies to slander, poor, poor Rodina and will continue to do so. How the hell a 24 hour sting operation that resulted in the capture of a Russian contract killer lends credibility to that propaganda is a thing no one has clearly explained. And can’t because it’s just them trying to elevate their personal pique that they were made to look ridiculous on Twitter by tweeting condolences and outrage–a ridiculousness that exists solely in their own minds but is driving them to make themselves look ridiculous now.

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