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Merkel demands answers from Putin over Navalny's attempted murder

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Re: Merkel demands answers from Putin over Navalny's attempted murder

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Putin didn’t “demand answers” when the chairwoman of the Democratic party revealed Hillary Clinton was using the DNC to launder money to her campaign in violation of contribution limits set by law? No he didn’t. The US and European governments in its orbit should stop meddling in and creating internal conflicts in other states like Ukraine Venezuela and Syria.

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/02/clinton-b...

Everything about this guy is suspicious.

> Navalny received a scholarship to the Yale World Fellows program at Yale University in 2010.

Imagine an American politician received a scholarship to study at a Russian university. I think such a politician would be accused of being a quisling immediately and the FBI would accuse him of lying to put him away like they did to General Flynn.

> With regard to Russia's annexation of Crimea, Navalny shortly after the annexation urged further sanctions against officials and businessmen linked to Putin and proposed a sanctions list for Western countries

Wow. Here he’s calling for foreign governments to intervene to attack his political opponents. If Trump were to call on Putin to sanction Biden the US media would be brandishing pitch forks on live TV.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexei_Navalny

I’m so sick of US imperialism.

Re: Merkel demands answers from Putin over Navalny's attempted murder

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I'd demand answers too. How come a 'military grade' nerve agent that should be capable of killing hundreds almost instantly is such a failure that it hardly works at all?

It’s interesting that (a) a military grade nerve agent was used, (b) the dosage given was sub-lethal, and (c) Putin had no qualms about releasing Navalny to German care. Makes you wonder if this was all about sending a message.

Re: Merkel demands answers from Putin over Navalny's attempted murder

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Putin didn’t “demand answers” when the chairwoman of the Democratic party revealed Hillary Clinton was using the DNC to launder money to her campaign in violation of contribution limits set by law? No he didn’t. The US and European governments in its orbit should stop meddling in and creating internal conflicts in other states like Ukraine Venezuela and Syria. https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/02/clinto…

Really? This is what you come to comment with? Off topic and unrelated?

Re: Merkel demands answers from Putin over Navalny's attempted murder

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Putin didn’t “demand answers” when the chairwoman of the Democratic party revealed Hillary Clinton was using the DNC to launder money to her campaign in violation of contribution limits set by law? No he didn’t. The US and European governments in its orbit should stop meddling in and creating internal conflicts in other states like Ukraine Venezuela and Syria. https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/02/clinto…

Really? This is what you come to comment with? Off topic and unrelated?

The account you've replied to is 19 days old. Not the most subtle sock puppet.

Re: Merkel demands answers from Putin over Navalny's attempted murder

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I'd demand answers too. How come a 'military grade' nerve agent that should be capable of killing hundreds almost instantly is such a failure that it hardly works at all?

It’s interesting that (a) a military grade nerve agent was used, (b) the dosage given was sub-lethal, and (c) Putin had no qualms about releasing Navalny to German care. Makes you wonder if this was all about sending a message.

Putin wants dissenters to be on notice. He can reach you and it will be painful.

If he just outright killed the man the news cycle probably would have moved on a while ago.

I imagine he is delighted by how this is all going.

Re: Merkel demands answers from Putin over Navalny's attempted murder

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I'm sure, civilized world can demand answers from Kim Jong Un about working camps in his country, or Xi Jinping about concentration camps for Uighurs with the same probability of success.

Dictators don't care what people outside their dictatorship think and do, unless it possesses direct threat to their power. Russia has nukes and seems do not care about sanctions (I mean, starving people without access to medications is not a reason to care for Putin), so Merkel would unlikely receive any explanation from Putin, he's to busy posing on a horse with a naked torso for Western magazines.

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