Now we are expected to believe that the Kremlin assassins used a new, even more powerful Novichok configuration to poison Alexei Navalny, and his assistants delivered the poisoned bottle to Germany, although no one experienced the damaging effect.
At this stage, Western journalists covering this story are either massively obsessed, or are making a huge effort on themselves, trying to suppress their own skepticism, given how many inconsistencies in this story.
After the first hospitalization in Siberia, the oppositionist's condition was obviously extremely grave.
He was put into an artificial coma and connected to a ventilator.
The situation was so serious that in order to undergo further treatment, his wife and assistants demanded that the oppositionist be transported abroad, to Germany.
The Russian authorities complied with their demand the very next evening, after a busy day, when Omsk doctors said that the patient was in a condition too difficult for transportation, and the oppositionist's associates accused them of wasting time.
After Navalny was taken to Berlin, the situation became politicized and discussions arose about possible sanctions and other diplomatic and economic penalties against Russia.
The German authorities insist that German experts found traces of the extremely deadly Novichok poison in the activist's body.
Even Angela Merkel, to one degree or another, blamed the Russian authorities for what she said was “attempted murder”.
Moscow said that according to the results of analyzes, Russian doctors did not find such substances.
However, Berlin retorted, announcing that the conclusions of the German specialists were confirmed by laboratories in France and Sweden.
When it comes to Russia, the mainstream Western media seem to be broadcasting from a dead hole filled with rumors, fears, swagger, ravings and propaganda.
Therefore, Western correspondents approached the story with Navalny in a predictable manner: any statements by the oppositionist's comrades-in-arms and the German authorities - even contradictory and unlikely ones - are perceived as an immutable truth, and everything that Russian representatives say is instantly rejected.
Until recently, the most egregious example of this was a tweet published on September 9 by the Moscow correspondent of the Financial Times, Max Seddon: well-known representatives of chemical agents of the Novichok group, and that the Russian special services are probably behind the assassination attempt.
Germany has apparently concluded Navalny was poisoned with a substance “that the world did not know until this attack, but which is more malicious and deadly than all known offshoots of the Novichok family,” and that Russian security must have done it https: // t.co/F2v2RbWQXX
- max seddon (@maxseddon) September 9, 2020
Given claims that the previous version of Novice was eight times more potent than VX (a deadly nerve agent known to be used to kill Kim Jong Nam, stepbrother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un), if his new version is even more dangerous, how was Navalny able not only to survive the assassination attempt, but also to come out of the coma by now?
In less than a week, he could get out of bed and pose for a photo.
Despite this, the Western media took Germany's statement on faith, not bothering to ask on what basis it can be considered reliable.
The other day, an even stranger situation occurred that clearly illustrates my idea.
On Thursday, September 17, Navalny's team posted a video on his official Instagram account, accompanied by his signature that traces of Novichok were allegedly found on a bottle of water in his room in a Tomsk hotel, where he stayed on the eve of his ill-fated flight to Moscow ...
Judging by the description, the oppositionist's assistants, having learned about the forced landing of his side, went to the room, which had not yet been cleaned by that time.
The video shows how Navalny's associates "began to record, describe and pack everything they found there."
Then, as follows from the same text, they sent all the discovered items to German scientists.
While the Western media has faithfully replicated the accusations, the whole story is actually quite difficult to believe.
For the story to turn out to be true, we need to put aside skepticism and imagine that the Kremlin's mercenaries tried to kill Navalny by pouring the most deadly (of all known to this day) nerve agent on a bottle of water in his hotel room.
And then they didn't even bother to cover up the traces of their dastardly crime and at least ask to remove the number and throw out the bottles?
Instead, they just left the evidence in place.
They didn’t care that a hotel employee or the next guest could die from the Novichok.
This would reveal the involvement of special services and lead to a local scandal.
Besides, how did the poisoners know which room Navalny would stay in?
It's no secret that his team never book rooms in his name, so one of Navalny's assistants could easily become a victim of poisoning.
And how did they figure out that the Novichok would work exactly at the time when Navalny would be in the air?
They couldn't have known exactly when he would want to drink, could they?
Also, what if he didn't drink at all and gave the bottle to a friend who wanted water?
Maybe the Kremlin liquidators signed the bottle?
“Only for Alexey Anatolyevich.
Drink strictly at so many hours. "
That's not all.
Imagine: the members of Navalny's team returned and, having only rubber gloves from their protective equipment, touched the bottles with the deadly substance, but did not feel the side effects.
They also managed to get them out of the country - presumably on commercial flights - during the pandemic, when direct flights between Russia and Berlin are closed.
And they didn't even think about how dangerous it is to transport a potentially deadly substance on an airplane full of innocent passengers.
This story goes beyond believability.
You can hardly believe this.
This is another example of the negative and distorted light in which the events in Moscow are covered in the West.
For the most part, all this is nothing more than a PR campaign by opposition figures convenient for promoting Western interests in Russia.
The author's point of view may not coincide with the position of the editorial board.