Angela Merkel says Alexei Navalny novichok poisoning was attempted murder

[Soph0571]

Alexei Navalny novichok finding prompts calls for answers from Moscow

World leaders are demanding answers from the Kremlin after toxicological examinations indicated that the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned with a nerve agent from the novichok family.

The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, revealed that tests carried out at a military laboratory had “identified unequivocally” the Soviet era nerve agent. She referred to the case as an “attempted murder” and said the findings raised “very difficult questions that only the Russian government can answer, and has to answer”.
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The White House called the attack “completely reprehensible”. Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden called it an “outrageous and brazen attempt on Mr Navalny’s life” and noted that Donald Trump had yet to personally condemn the attack.

[link:https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/02/alexei-navalny-poisoned-with-novichok-says-german-government-russia|]


Love how the White House calls it reprehensible... seriously do you think Putin would try and get away with this shite if he did not have the President of the US on a very public leash? Of course not. Russia is a third rate country with a declining economy and a bully boy punching well above his weight in charge - and being enabled by the fuckwit in chief.

[mitch96]

1. True, tRump is putins bitch... Russia has the economy of Italy and going down at that.

The problem with Germany is that it gets ⅔ of it's natural gas from mother Russia. That is a big lever against Germany and any European country that relies on Russian gas. Who does Russia rely on that they don't have leverage on ? Thats where you apply pressure..
Then again I don't think putin cares. Poisoning people in other countries. Attacks on US troops in convoy, bounty on US soldiers heads, jets buzzing US aircraft in international sky's and bombers flying close to US territory in Alaska. Clearly taunting by Russia. They are just asking for a confrontation... I just wish a US jet would get in front of a russian bomber and dump it's fuel all over the front of the bomber..
Pissing on it if you will Ha!
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[doc03]

2. Trump says nothing. The Russian military has been playing dangerous games buzzing our

military aircraft even a B52 bomber and Trump says nothing. Russia pays a bounty on our troops and Trump says nothing. Russia is interfering in the election again and Trump says nothing.

[duforsure]

3. Thinking someone who allowed Putin to put bounties on American service members

To say anything against the corrupt murderer Putin for doing this is a waste of time. Trump will be doing this too if re-elected , and worse , to even his supporters when they've had enough of him. Could trump be charged with terrorism from conspiring with him and others?

[Cosmo Blues]

4. Indeed

I might have phrased it differently but that's my perception. NATO meets tomorrow but it's today for you Soph. Almost every other human on the planet would go with Europe on this, most Americans cannot apologize to the rest of the world enough for our president.