BERLIN (AP) — German doctors treating Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny for a suspected poisoning say the dissident is still in an induced coma but his condition is stable and his symptoms are improving.
For the political opponents of authoritarian/dictators/murderous royal…it’s off with your head, falling off balconies and poisons/Putinism!
Nalvany’s poisoning was a warning shot and a playbook for wanna-be dictators to follow!
White House, if you’re listening…!!!
He prefers the “suicide” route. Bad business to be a banker or a political operative connected to Trump…
My bet is “nerve agents”.
That is Putin’s poison of choice as it’s difficult to treat and almost ALWAYS fatal.
See: “Russian Dissident and his daughter poisoned in UK with nerve agent.”
Just wait till you see what Trump does to Biden.
I can’t help feeling like Putin needs to be taken down a peg, or several.
This keeps happening because we do nada.
In a world that moves away from an oil-centric economy, Putin becomes a has been footnote. The petrochem axis is what really ties the Repugnicants to the Russians.
The Biden Harris campaign ought to harp on this non stop. Trump is Putin’s stooge who engages in the murder of journalists and political opponents.
They’re treating the poisoning with atropine, which is the antidote to nerve gas, so your suggestion appears to be accurate.
Considering that four of the five people affected in the Skripal poisoning survived, and that Navalny is also apparently going to live, I would suggest that the lethality is a bit less than “almost ALWAYS fatal,” at least with adequate medical treatment. Putin might want to rethink his poison of choice.
Ah, I just didn’t understand that the millions of high paying jobs would all be “cleaners”.
Thanks for this, LHG; I think this point is important enough to emphasize again. I’ve argued for a while that it’s surprising to me how little attention or care the supposedly-Israel-supporting Republican’ts pay to this issue, particularly w/ the vast majority of the 9/11/2001 hijackers and bin Laden hisself coming from Saudi Arabia.
If we really wanted to give Israel a truly ‘free hand’ in the Middle East (about which I’d have misgivings), getting off of petroleum would be a huge step.
Putin takes out the people he wants to take out, plenty of those examples.
Where he treats cases differently and gives a chance of survival after a long and painful convalescence, that’s a different and I believe deliberate message all of its own.
I don’t think you dose somebody’s tea with nerve gas without intent to kill. The GRU is just not, on the whole, a bunch of supergeniuses who accomplish their missions without fail.
This is Putin signaling Trump. “This is how it is done, young padawan…”
I’d only counter that if killing is the only intent, there are much easier and 100% effective ways to accomplish that. Putin uses poison to send a certain type of message. That it so often does not kill the victim indicates that he’s okay with something less than guaranteed death as an outcome.
An alive but seriously wounded Navalny sends a great message to other wannabes.
If it were only one or two cases, I’d be on board with it being an accident. But once there’s a pattern set, it’s something else.
Agree with that. Firing seven rounds into the back of an unarmed person certainly evidences intent to kill, but permanent paralysis sends pretty much the same message too.
Did you really intend the subordinate clause to refer to Trump?
If not, how about “Trump is the stooge of Putin, who engages…”?
I’d much rather see us move to a sustainable economy and let them all fight for the sand without our weapon systems.
For as much of a pain in the ass as Navalny’s been for Putin for years now, I can’t figure out how he’s stayed alive this long.
