William,
Can anything that Putin says about the manner in which Putin is disposing of his political opponents be believed?
Has Putin been honest about the circumstances surrounding the premature deaths of any of those who have dared speak out against his autocratic administration?[1] [2][3]
No!
Just as Russian agent #Trump believes all government employees in the USA work directly for him, the medical staff at the Siberian Omsk hospital works for Putin, not for Russia. As will other Putin mouthpieces, they will say what pleases Putin or else.
Denials that Novichok (which poisons by targeting neuromuscular signalling)[4] was used are falling flat partly because this is the public relations message Putin wants to send his western enemies: “Russian President Vladimir Putin continues to use the infamous Novichok nerve agent to poison his enemies precisely because the nerve agent can be linked to the Russian security services, according to two intelligence officials who have investigated Russian operations in the past.”[5]Coincidentally (ahem) readers will recall that Novichok was “used previously in the poisoning of Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury” Great Britain.[6]
“Navalny’s supporters say the nerve agent carries the hallmarks of Kremlin involvement. ‘Choosing Novichok to poison Navalny in 2020 is basically the same thing as leaving an autograph at the scene of the crime,’ Leonid Volkov, Navalny’s chief of staff, wrote on Twitter, attaching an image of Putin’s signature. Ivan Zhdanov, a Navalny aide, tweeted: ‘Only a government can do this.’”[7][8]
The other reason denials are falling flat is, of course, because the Germans have proof beyond a shadow of a doubt that Novichok was used to commit this murder[9][10]although the poison was deliberately designed by Russia to be very difficult to detect.[11]
The Germans are right and the medical staff at the Siberian Omsk hospital, doing their duty by Putin and fully aware of the probable cause, deliberately misdiagnosed the patient as having some sort of mysterious metabolic disease. [12]
-Jeff
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