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Re:Novichok Nerve Agent Poisoning by JumpCrisscross on Thursday January 21, 2021 @10:28PM (#25867966)
If you ignore the evidence outside molecular signature yes, the “Moon of Alabama” hypothesis sounds plausible. Given the facts and circumstances, however, the conclusion becomes unavoidable.
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Re:Novichok Nerve Agent Poisoning by kyrieeschaton on Thursday January 21, 2021 @10:38PM (#25868029)
The circumstances are that an english-tweeting western-sponsored Yale World Fellow with approximately zero actual Russian support found himself "poisoned" (nonfatally, of course) in a way politically useful to the west in their ongoing project of destabilizing Russia, as diagnosed by western security services.
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Re:Novichok Nerve Agent Poisoning by lollipop90 on Thursday January 21, 2021 @11:16PM (#25868252)
> with approximately zero actual Russian support

Despite the fact that the odds are stacked (media controlled by United Russia, etc...) Navalny got 27% of the vote in 2013 Moscow election.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Moscow_mayoral_election#C...

That is not exactly "zero actual support". And that was before the 2018 "pension" reforms.

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Re:Novichok Nerve Agent Poisoning by AstralStorm on Friday January 22, 2021 @03:12AM (#25869551)
Still not enough to force the hand of the ruling oligarchs just yet. When it's closer to half they're on to something.
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Re:Novichok Nerve Agent Poisoning by favorited on Friday January 22, 2021 @02:06PM (#25874953)
If he has "zero actual Russian support," why would western security services go through the trouble of staging this?
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