Nick Kollerstrom – Terror on the Tube Sept 3, 2020

Alexey Navalny, the latest of Putin’s opponents to be poisoned with Novichok. Click to enlarge

It is a matter of supreme importance for the US & NATO that the nearly-finished Nord Stream-II gas pipeline construction from Russia to Germany be derailed. Accordingly we now see a revamp of the UK’s 2018 ‘Novichok’ story. Again this deadly poison failed to kill its victim, again various other people around the victim are unaffected, again the NATO lab (in this case Germany) refuses to share its findings with Russia, even though a Russian hospital has very thoroughly analysed the blood – and found no such toxin. Again it all looks pre-planned.
Berlin insists its Bundeswehr [military] laboratory found traces of poison from the Novichok family. How come a NATO military lab is suddenly involved? The diagnosis was made by a German military doctor!
But, Russian scientists who were twenty years ago behind the ‘Novichok’ development – Leonid Rink and Vladimir Uglev – have dismissed the German claims. The two were founders of the Soviet Novichok chemical weapons programme and both worked until 1991 at the Volsk branch of the State Research Institute of Organic Chemistry and Technology in Shikhany, part of the Saratov Region.) “The symptoms are absolutely not similar,” Rink told media outlet RIA Novosti: had Novichok been used, Navalny would have had seizures, and he would have already died, instead of falling into a coma.
Had such a poisoning taken place, why would the Russian government have allowed the patient to be flown out of Russia?
Chancellor Merkel described Navalny as “the leading opposition politician in Russia.” (2 September)
Berlin has neglected bilateral cooperation mechanisms that would allow Russia to investigate the situation. Moscow claimed: ‘It seems that somebody restricts [the] German Justice Ministry, as well as [German] medical workers, from speaking to their Russian colleagues.’ We heard that before over the Skripal case.
Too late, Russia realised that it had been all pre-planned:
If the goal is to justify certain pre-planned ‘response measures’ announced earlier, it becomes clear why mouthpiece diplomacy, substitution of proper cooperation with an information campaign, public addresses to EU and NATO and mentioning of the OPCW are being used.
On August 20, a plane carrying Alexay Navalny made an emergency landing in Omsk after the blogger suddenly felt unwell on a flight from Siberia to Moscow.
Navalny was taken to hospital in a coma and was put on a ventilator.
On August 22, he was flown to Germany for treatment.
German doctors said on August 24 that they had found signs of Navalny’s intoxication with substances from the cholinesterase inhibitors group
On 2nd September the German Government issued a press release, saying ‘a special Bundeswehr laboratory carried out a toxicological test using samples from Alexej Nawalny. Thereby the unequivocal proof of a chemical nerve warfare agent of the Novitschok group was provided.’ On September 3rd the UK government echoed this, that there was ‘unequivocal proof’ that the Russian had been poisoned.

The Crackpot Tale with its Loony Logic

(by Kit Knightly, Aletho News)

· The State apparatus responsible for unnecessary and seemingly arbitrary acts of political murder decide to use novichok to poison him.
· This decision is taken in spite of the facts that a) Novichok totally and utterly failed to work in their alleged murder of the Skripals and b) It has already been widely publicly associated with Russia.
· Rather unsurprisingly, the novichok which didn’t kill its alleged target last time, doesn’t kill its alleged target this time either.
· Compounding their poor decision making, the Russians not only perform an emergency landing and take Navalny straight to a hospital for medical care.
· Despite Navalny being helpless and comatose in a Russian hospital, the powerful state-backed assassination team make no further attempts on his life.
· In fact, seemingly determined to under no circumstances successfully kill their intended victim, the Russian government, allow him to leave the country and get medical help from one of the countries which previously accused them of using novichok.
· To absolutely no one’s surprise, the Germans claim to have detected novichok in Navalny’s system.
· Vladimir Putin and the Russian government are immediately blamed for the attempted murder.
Trump Demurs on Blaming Russia    4 Sept.   NY Times –
President Trump on Thursday reiterated his desire to “get along” with Moscow despite an international uproar over the poisoning of the Russian dissident Aleksei A. Navalny with a deadly nerve agent, saying that when the subject of Russia appears on the news, he turns it off…Instead, he boasted that he had kept the United States “out of wars,” and he pointed to his persistent efforts to thaw relations between Washington and Moscow. “It’s good that I get along,” Mr. Trump said. “If I get along with Russia, is that a good thing or bad thing? I think it’s a good thing.”

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