Putin Critic Alexei Navalny Out Of Coma And Responsive After Poisoning

BERLIN (AP) — Poisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s condition has improved, allowing doctors to take him out of an induced coma, the German hospital treating him said Monday.


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So he’s not a sucker or loser?

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Chiselin’ Trump: “I don’t see any reason why it wouldn’t—I mean would—be Russia.”

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how long before Navalny accidentally falls from a 10th floor balcony?

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“Russia has denied”…

My father spent a career as an espionage agent looking into the bullshit Russia pulls. Dispositive proof but “Russia denies”. Russia is the nation state version of Trump. Small economy, big mouths and little modern achievement. In the pre USSR period Russia was a giant of the arts and sciences. Now is a scab country with an extractive economy and 135 million people that are desperate to be lied to. When was the last time you saw “Made in Russia” on anything? It’s a rinky dink shithole of a place that anchors most of the world’s suffering.

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I’m glad to hear that he is recovering. My advice would be to stay in Germany, because returning to Russia will surely be a death sentence.

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Fat Nixon may not be using Novichok (yet), but he sure as hell is poisoning our democracy.

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If Navalny hand’t been taken to Germany, he’d be dead now.

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And if video emerges of Putin administering the nerve agent personally, our president will say he was just giving him a Gatorade drip, like friends do.

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Absolutely. I’m still astonished they got him out — unless it was meant as a warning…

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And from Donnie: "Crickets"

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I gather that Putin strongly denied any involvement to Dumbo. Case closed.

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I think the desired effect was accomplished by putin; death or very bad things will happen to anyone that publicly opposes me.

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To repeat — from the recent Telegraph article on leaked meeting notes between Trump and Teresa May and Trump and Boris Johnson.

Re the poisoning of the Skripals in Salisbury, UK.

“We really need your leadership on this,” May said, according to notes.

“No, I would rather follow than lead,” Trump is quoted responding.

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It’s a rinky dink shithole of a place that anchors most of the world’s suffering.

But thanks to Trump, we’re #2 with a bullet!

Mikhail Ulyanov, the Russian envoy to international organizations in Vienna, voiced suspicions about the timing of demands to link the pipeline with the Navalny case.

So the Russian position is now that the US or some other opponent of the pipeline poisoned Navalny with Novichok? Okay, okay, we still have a ways to go to reach those depths.

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Trump has spent most of it on legal fees. It’s a problem when you’ve got a mob boss as president.

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They got him out. Now see if he recovers his ability to criticize Donald’s Master. He might be more useful as a live example for other dissidents. Three years on and who remembers this guy?
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Or stuffed it into his pockets.

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Proving that his donors are morons, too.

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This is great news and I wish him a speedy recovery.

Sadly no one is ever beyond the reach of Daddy Vladdie.

As evidence I submit one Donnie John tRumpivich…

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