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WhyNotThink's avatar

This is what I think about Navalny, (from memory of reading the news), I am not going to look anything up.

I remember at first Navalny was an anti-corruption voice (in Russia). He did some Youtube pieces on the abundant assets of Medvedev, (drone fly-overs of country estates and the like), and asked where did he get those riches? I didn't see anything on Putin, but there may have been.

Of what possible interest is Russian anti-corruption to the American CIA? ZERO. So they cast Navalny as an opposition figure and gave him the job to be repressed. Navalny started holding demonstrations without a permit. (He could have gotten a permit.) The first time he got 15 days in jail and a reprimand. OK now were getting somewhere, so that hit the western news. With the 2nd unauthorized demonstration he got 30 days and a fine.

So as the new "opposition figure", Navalny's job was to get into jail, to make some western news. Follow that reasoning throughout his whole career, and it always makes sense with the circumstances. He is a figure like Juan Gerardo Guaidó, but with different job opportunities. But he was still on salary.

I would say he self-administered something given to him, to get into Germany, and then some fishy trace chemicals were discovered, somewhere down the line. No Doctor at Charité would sign off on any poisoning.

Then after disobeying his probation terms, why did he go back to Russia? Clearly, he had to get into jail to keep his salary coming. Then some of his embezzlement came to light, (or was already known), and his jail term mushroomed.

Then what happened to get him back into the news??? I don't know, but he was on a perpetual chemical diet for years, and who knows what the side effects or interactions between drugs are going to be? In this case, a brain hemorrhage. That's a worthy event, so the salary was transferred to his wife.

It is just my fantasy story, so don't try to verify it.

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DeepThought's avatar

It is also interesting that Navalnya was immediately able to make a statement at the Munich Security Conference. Perfect timing or clumsy propaganda staging? I think the former confirms the latter.

https://thehill.com/policy/international/4472349-navalny-wife-speech-munich-security-conference/

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