NAVALNY FALSE-FLAG AUTHORS INVENT NEW TWIST TO COVER LIES
By Finian Cunningham, Strategic Culture Foundation.
September 12, 2020 | EDUCATE!
Above photo: By Shamil Zhumatov.
So now the Navalny poison episode takes on a new twist with German military
intelligence subsequently claiming they found traces of Novichok on a bottle
of water the Russian dissident had purportedly been drinking from. Rather,
it sounds more like the authors of this false-flag operation have "bottled"
- meaning became unnerved by the absurdities inherent in their own
narrative.
Last week the German government announced that a Bundeswehr military
laboratory had detected Novichok in the body fluids of Sergei Navalny. That
promptly led to charges that the Kremlin was responsible for the attempted
murder of Navalny using the Soviet-era nerve poison.
The trouble for the German side was that their narrative soon ran into
contradictions from the Russian toxicologists who first treated Navalny when
he apparently fell ill on a flight from Siberia to Moscow on August 20. The
Russian medics said they had tested Navalny for a whole range of poisons,
including organophosphate-type chemicals which attack the nervous system.
The Russian doctors affirmed they found no poison traces. They concluded
Navalny's coma was induced by an existing medical condition, presumably
diabetes. Furthermore, the doctors at the hospital in Omsk where Navalny was
taken to on August 20, said they have original samples of his body fluids.
It's the latter detail which seems to have obliged the Germans to elaborate
their narrative with the new element of a poisoned bottle of water. If
indeed the Russians have Navalny's biological samples showing no presence of
toxins then the German version falls apart as a fabrication. That could only
mean that the claimed detection of Novichok by the Germans was the result of
deliberate contamination of his body fluids while he was being treated in
the hospital in Berlin where he was airlifted to on August 22 from Russia.
It is reported by Der Spiegel that Navalny's family relatives kept the
alleged bottle after he fell sick on the flight from the Siberian city
Tomsk. They purportedly did not hand the bottle over to the Russian
toxicologists in Omsk, but rather provided the bottle instead to the Germans
when Navalny arrived in Berlin two days later.
This "bottle twist" is a convenient and necessary foil to avoid the
potentially damning contradiction from the Russian side. The Germans can now
claim to have evidence that was not available to the Russians.
But such a ploy creates more questions that still make the German narrative
implausible, if not absurd.
If Novichok was used in poisoning Navalny, the 44-year-old dissident would
most likely be dead by now. Also, the aides and flight attendants who came
into close contact with him during his flight would have shown symptoms of
poisoning. It is inconceivable that a bottle contaminated with the deadly
nerve agent could have been transported by Navalny's family to Germany
without them being stricken.
The strange Navalny affair has an unerring resemblance to the equally
outlandish Skripal affair. Yet the latter is cited as a precedent for the
former in order to "substantiate" incrimination of Russia. The alleged
Novichok weapon seems to have an amazing ability to lose its deadly potency
on bystanders. The immediate victims apparently go into mysterious comas and
are not seen or heard of again in public, detained in secret by the British
and now German government. There is also the curious introduction of bottles
in both cases: the perfume bottle which allegedly conveyed the Novichok
weapon in the Skripal incident in England in March 2018, and now the water
bottle in the Navalny incident.
As with the alleged assassination attempt on MI6 double agent Sergei
Skripal, the latest incident involving Russian opposition figure Alexei
Navalny is undoubtedly a false-flag provocation to foment Western sanctions
and hostility against Moscow.
Immediately following reports of alleged German detection of Novichok in
Navalny's body, there were predictable calls for the cancellation of the
Nord Stream-2 gas project between Russia and Germany. It is no secret that
pro-Washington German politicians have long been opposed to the ambitious
energy trade with Russia.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has up to now been resolute in wanting Nord
Stream-2 completed in spite of immense pressure from the Trump
administration and the U.S. Congress to abandon it. The American agenda is
transparently to replace Russian gas energy supplies with American exports.
Navalny's apparent poison-assassination fits neatly with this strategic
American agenda. Given the allegiance of German military intelligence and
certain politicians to the transatlantic axis it is not difficult to
conceive of how a false-flag provocation against Moscow could be
orchestrated.
The problem is that in their haste to set up Navalny as a victim in order to
sabotage Nord Stream-2, the authors overlooked the unfortunate anomaly of
Russian doctors potentially disproving the claim of detecting Novichok in
Navalny's body. Realizing their clumsy mistake, the authors are obliged to
invent another twist in the story involving a contaminated water bottle. In
terms of credibility, however, their invention doesn't hold water.
This has grave implications for the survivability of Navalny. As an
opposition figure long lionized and exaggerated by the West as the nemesis
of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Navalny is more valuable dead than
alive as a propaganda weapon. With its false-flag narrative failing, the
temptation may be to up the ante dramatically by amending the script of
Navalny "succumbing" to Novichok.
Finian Cunningham has written extensively on international affairs, with
articles published in several languages. He is a Master's graduate in
Agricultural Chemistry and worked as a scientific editor for the Royal
Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, England, before pursuing a career in
newspaper journalism. He is also a musician and songwriter. For nearly 20
years, he worked as an editor and writer in major news media organisations,
including The Mirror, Irish Times and Independent.
