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Thomas Beavitt's avatar

I agree with Regis, it’s just silly. I don’t believe that orders were given from the Russian government to kill Navalny, but even if they were, there would be plenty of much easier ways has to do it than resort to obscure South American biotoxins. I wonder if these “poison” narratives are specifically designed to hook into a peculiarly British mass hysteria, conditioned as it is by Agatha Christy novels, James Bond villains, and so on.

Herman's avatar

I, too, think that this narrative originates in Britain. The British are the masters of this kind of stories. Think of the Belgian children in WWI whose hands were chopped off by the Germans, the crucified Canadian soldiers, the giant soap factories where the Germans turned the bodies of their dead soldiers into soap, etc. Needless to say, that no Belgian child with cut-off hands was ever found after the war. The same goes for the other horror stories. But they had served their purpose: filling the allied soldiers and civilians with hatred towards the enemy.

I think that there is more poison to be found in the inventors of these narratives than in South American frogs, no matter how toxic they may be.

Darras's avatar

Yes John Cleese at head of Foreign Office, Johnny English at head of MI6 and Benny Hill at the head of army. UK has become a parody.

God save the king. :)

Feral Finster's avatar

Of course the narrative is laughable. Doesn't matter, if it gets the intended results and it costs nothing.

Thomas Beavitt's avatar

Then again, keeping the British populace stupid is not going to deliver global competitiveness for the UK in the long term…

Feral Finster's avatar

Nobody cares. For that matter, a Starmer, a Johnson shrugs his shoulders and figures that he'll be long gone if any consequences occur, and besides, consequences are for the littles.

Regis Tremblay's avatar

This is laughable. Not worth any more of my time.

Darras's avatar

Bah, this story makes laugh those who know the western scoundrels, it makes confort those who think that Poutine is Fu Mandchu leading a horde of cave man babies eaters, and the huge majority don't give a shit to that bad joke.

Walter DuBlanica's avatar

The WEST is losing so badly on the international stage that they have to resort to LIES. What else can they do ????

Darras's avatar

Sure West lost so much in Syria, Venezuela, Pakistan, Liban, Armenia, Azerbaijan. And is losing so much in India, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan that one must ask why it has not yet collapsed.

Herman's avatar

That frog looks pretty intimidating.

Darras's avatar

You didn't know that russian agents where blowgun experts?

Pawel Podgorski's avatar

There will be never any agreement with us and Russia. Are you naive or something else. Bomb that scum without any comments. when iSSrahell used white phosphorus nobody was complaining. You do not need to explain anything, carryout your work to the end.

Jojo's avatar

Well of course Putin and his henchmen did the deed. There is plenty of past history inditing Putin purely on circumstantial evidence and a similar MO. Had there been a prison building high enough, Putin probably would have preferred to have Navanly "fall" out of a window. Doesn't leave any evidence then.

But I did wonder why this was being publized at this point in time. What the purpose was.