[kyrieeschaton]

The circumstances are that an english-tweeting western-sponsored Yale World Fellow with approximately zero actual Russian support found himself "poisoned" (nonfatally, of course) in a way politically useful to the west in their ongoing project of destabilizing Russia, as diagnosed by western security services.

[lollipop90]

> with approximately zero actual Russian support

Despite the fact that the odds are stacked (media controlled by United Russia, etc...) Navalny got 27% of the vote in 2013 Moscow election.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Moscow_mayoral_election#C...

That is not exactly "zero actual support". And that was before the 2018 "pension" reforms.

[AstralStorm]

Still not enough to force the hand of the ruling oligarchs just yet. When it's closer to half they're on to something.

[favorited]

If he has "zero actual Russian support," why would western security services go through the trouble of staging this?