The Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday that US intelligence agencies believe Russian President Vladimir Putin likely did not order the killing of opposition figure Alexei Navalny, who died earlier this year while serving a 19-year sentence at a penal colony in Siberia.
In the aftermath of Navalny’s death, President Biden pinned the blame on Putin and imposed new sanctions on Russia. “We don’t know exactly what happened, but there is no doubt that the death of Navalny was the consequence of something that Putin and his thugs did,” Biden said.
The Journal report said that the idea that Putin likely didn’t order Navalny’s death is “broadly accepted within the intelligence community” and is the view of the CIA, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and the State Department’s intelligence wing.
The cause of Navalny’s death is unclear. Russian intelligence officials have said he died of “natural” causes at 47 years old. Kyrylo Budanov, the head of Ukraine’s CIA-backed military intelligence agency, said Navalny died of a blood clot.
Last month, Putin said that he had been willing to exchange Navalny for Russians who are detained abroad under the condition that he couldn’t return to Russia. According to the Journal, President Biden and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz had discussed the idea just a week before Navalny died.
Is this part of winning Russia back to isolate China?
The US will likely put Assange nearly as terrible as the prison Navalny was in. And the US would bear much of the blame for his likely death in that place.
Nearly???
The principle reason why Assange is still in England is because the US refuses to rule out seeking the death penalty for the crime of journalism.
But blaming Navalny’s death on Putin makes for a much more interesting story, the truth be damned! Lies are half way around the world while the truth is just getting its pants on.
How many billions do we pay the Deep State to come up with the obvious?
This will be like the intelligence agencies saying Iran isn’t making nukes. It won’t matter one iota.
Because they did it? I’m kidding, or am I?
Navalny was vaccinated when he went to Germany for medical care.
I am going to hold my breath waiting for an apology from Biden. See you in my next life.
“US Intelligence Agencies Say Putin Didn’t Order Navalny’s Death”
They should know since their buddies in MI6 orchestrated the murder.