Germany has confirmed that Alexei Navalny has been poisoned by a Soviet-era "nerve agent." Navalny, of course, is (or was) one of Vlad's strongest critics.
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned with the same type of Soviet-era nerve agent that British authorities identified in a 2018 attack on a former Russian spy, the German government said Wednesday.
The findings – which experts say point strongly to Russian state involvement – are likely to increase tensions between Russia and the West. German Chancellor Angela Merkel called the poisoning on Navalny attempted murder and said it was meant to silence one of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest critics. [Stuff, September 3, 2020]It's well past time that the law-abiding international community ruled that Vlad's post-Soviet Russia is in actual fact a rogue state. It will be interesting to see just how far Angela Merkel will take the issue. Since Germany has signed up to import Russian natural gas on a grand scale our expectations of something meaningful in the way of sanctions against Vlad remain low.
We expect that Angela will take a couple of disprins and it will be "business as usual" before lunchtime.
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