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Post by sharts »

Kapura wrote: post #14

The part that really got to me was this paragraph: >“That is what drives us crazy,” the detective said. “You come here and act like you’re on vacation. Like this is some paradise. It doesn’t even occur to you to keep yourself safe. We have political killings here. The Russian special services are active in Germany. Your carelessness, yours and your colleagues, knows no bounds.” It's very difficult to reconcile what s…

Journalists have always been targeted by all regimes, “authoritarian” or not. When puppet masters are questioned by journalists, their lives are materially affected.

Julian Assange, Shireen Abu Akleh, etc.

There’s a reason most mainstream media reporting is the equivalent of 2nd grade book report.

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Post by Paradigma11 »

foobarian wrote: post #81

I'm no assassin but wonder how someone could fail to kill someone with poison. Aren't there a million deadly choices out there that would do the job reliably? Is the FSB security apparatus this incompetent?

I think its a mixture of incompetence, micromanaging (you need to use very inappropriate radioactive or chemical warfare agents like Novitchok) and indifference (since terror is a major goal).

Here are elite GRU assassins giving an interview to support their cover story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZatub49aIA

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Post by willcipriano »

lordlimecat wrote: post #119
willcipriano wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm in the west and I'm often the only person in the room who is aware that the US has been murdering children in almost a dozen countries around the globe for the past two decades. Like they are vaguely aware on a surface level but they haven't really conceptualized the fact and say things like "Russias unprecedented invasion!" dramatically and as if they had a moral leg to stand on.

>the US has been murdering children in almost a dozen countries around the globe for the past two decades. Do you want to spell out what countries, specifically, you have in mind here?

Pakistan, Yemen, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and Somalia from the top of my head.

That isn't to mention CIA backed coups, etc.

Isn't it weird most Americans can't name, much less find on a map, the nations they are at war with?

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Post by fmajid »

invalidname wrote: post #110
AdamN wrote: post #39

The German counter-terrorism forces hold quite a bit of blame here. These things happening on German soil are unacceptable and it shouldn't be the victim's fault. What is German media saying about this?

Assassinations happened on US soil in the height of the cold war. The Russians are really good at these sorts of things and it's pretty easy to do. As she mentioned, a person could touch her bare foot in the train to deliver poison. Spray her while moving next to her. Slip something into her drink. Recognizing an agent is also impossible, they can't stop illegal immigration how can they stop well trained and document…

Even by nominal US allies like the assassination of Orlando Letelier by Pinochet's secret services, by a car bomb in Washington DC.

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Post by vxNsr »

lordlimecat wrote: post #116
vxNsr wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Again it is extreme naïveté, those assassins when caught are summarily executed. Iran will pick people off the street, accuse them of working for Israel and kill them, just to send a message to their own people. They’re not politely returning western assassins.

And it's your belief that the State Department-- let alone the CIA-- are totally ignorant of what Iran does to its staff?

Nope, I think the politicians at the top are hopelessly naive or simply too maliciously self involved to care. And are more concerned with appearances than any of the values they claim to espouse.

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Post by t0bia_s »

ocschwar wrote: post #91

This story is being falsely flagged.

Why was it flaged? Why falsely? There are plenty flagged articles recently, but without any explanation it's hard to find out why. Nobody learn from it.

At least we should have some options to set with flagging.

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Post by fmajid »

pxeger1 wrote: post #42

> I corresponded about my trip to Munich over Facebook Messenger. It’s not secure and I knew that Technically, this is intriguing. Is Facebook compromised, or do you think they compromised her phone, or the phone or whoever she was talking to?

Messenger does not yet have the same level of end-to-end encryption as WhatsApp, but they are working towards that.

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Post by user3939382 »

r721 wrote: post #89
user3939382 wrote: post #73

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The Grayzone is one of the best outlets there is. The smears about them on Wikipedia are by users with a political axe to grind. Go ahead and google the usernames of the Wikipedia users that voted them an unreliable source I’ll wait.
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