Angela Merkel has demanded answers from the Kremlin over the “attempted murder” of the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, after toxicological exams at Berlin’s Charité hospital indicated “unequivocally” that Navalny was poisoned with a nerve agent from the novichok family.
At first it seems odd that they use a poison that will scream RUSSIA when it’s detected – and then you remember that it’s an instrument of terror, and it no longer seems odd. Putin is just saying, as publicly as anyone could wish, “I can kill you whenever I feel like it.”
The discovery that novichok was used on Navalny will lead many to conclude that the attack was meant as a brazen message to critics of the Kremlin, and Navalny’s associates quickly pointed the finger at Putin.
“Choosing novichok to poison Navalny in 2020 is basically the same thing as leaving an autograph at the scene of the crime,” wrote Navalny’s associate Leonid Volkov on Twitter, appending an image of Putin’s autograph to the tweet.
Or a 20 foot billboard.
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11 responses to “Putin to world: don’t fuck with me”
You are exactly right. The whole point is to tell everyone that if you don’t grovel at Putin’s feet, he’ll punish you. Another psychopath, but unlike the one he installed in the White House, one with a brain.
Putin doesn’t bother with punishing you, he just kills you.
C’mon! That’s Trump’s buddy.
I feel a cold war coming on.
Respective of their positions of power, I still think Pootie is more dangerous than Donnie. Pootie is probably more intelligent, and he’s ruthless by malicious intent. Donnie has been ruthless more by incompetence and greed than malicious intent. Not that Donnie isn’t malicious, because he is, but Pootie makes him look like a two-bit hoodlum by comparison.
@3 Pootie is not Donnie’s buddy, he’s his idol.
I wonder why they didn’t use Polonium 210? Not Russian enough? Novichok violates the Geneva Protocol and the Chemical Warfare Convention, or maybe that’s part of the message – that there will be no consequences anyway.
I guess an element named after Marie Curie’s home country isn’t Russian enough
But we are told by our Preznit fer Life that Putin is fantastic. A theme echoed by the too prevalent left wing Trumpalos in the commentariate at an otherwise enjoyable site (Naked Capitalism). We are all just Russophobes.
I stand corrected. idol and maybe even mentor.
I was thinking puppeteer.
#Brian M
#8
I think I’m more of a novichok-phobe.