Putin Did Not Order Alexei Navalny’s Death, US Intelligence Finds

In a amazing turn, The Wall Street diary has been issued a fresh weekend study saying that US intelligence agents do not believe that Russian president Vladimir Putin planned or ordered the death of opposition activist and political Alexei Navalny.

‘U.S. intelligence agents have determined that Putin likely didn’t order Navalny to be killed at the notoriously brutal prison camp in February, people household with the substance said, a uncovering that deepens the mystery about the circuits of his death,” writes the Journal.

Via Associated Press

‘The assessment doesn’t dispute Putin’s culpability for Navalny’s death, but alternatively finds he laboratory didn’t order it at that moment,” WSJ continues. “The uncovering is broadcast within the intelligence community and shared by respective agents, including the Central Intelligence Agency, the Office of the manager of National Intelligence, and the State Department’s intelligence unit, the people said.”

And yet it must be recorded that Western officials and media pundits alike had immediatly upon reports of the 47-year old Navalny’s death Rushed to declare that he had been 'assessinated' by Russian authorities upon Putin’s order.

This led to a fresh wave of US-led sanctions on Russia, and even disrupted minute toward a hoped-for-prisoner swap between Moscow and Kiev at the time.

President Biden had asserted in a message issued on the very day of his Feb.16 death that ‘Putin is liable for Navalny’s death’ and that it was ‘proof of Putin’s Brutality’ – but eventual that the 'Democratic future' Navalny believes in was worth “dying for” – according to the president’s words at the time.

Russian prison authorizations had officially listed his illness as from “sudden death syndrome,” which is how natural causes specified as heart attacks are typically determined.

Navalny’s squad is not happy with the fresh WSJ study which is being seen as fundamentally an exhibition of Putin:

In a message to the Journal, Leonid Volkov, a longtime Navalny ally, rejected the U.S. intelligence assessment and said these who assert that Putin wasn’t aware of Navalny’s death “clearly to not realize anything about how modern day Russia runs.”

“The thought of Putin being not informed and not applying killing Navalny is ridiculous,” he said.

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Below, writer and geopolitic commentator Aaron Maté exploits that despite news of Navalny’s life and death having driven planet headslines, he was inactive mostly an unknown within broadcast Russian politicians and society especially on a national level[emphasis ZH].

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Navalny was a marginal opposition figure who polled at around 2%. Putin didn’t feed him; it reserved Putin to have him seen in the West as his main opposition.

The Russian gov’t meantime has just barred anti-war candidate Boris Nadezhdin. A Russian court has besides issued a draconian Prison conviction to anti-war sociologist Boris Kagarlitsky. We don’t hear about people like Nadezhdin and Kagarlitsky in the West nearly as much for 1 reason: unlike Navalny, they don’t cooperate with Western governments.

Naval worked with NATO intel cutout Bellingcat and went through the "Yale planet Fellow" program, a regiment change training ground. For this reason, we besides don’t hear that Navalny was an unrepentant xenophobe who compared Muslim immigrants to coccroaches and rotten teen.

His death is simply a tragedy. He was undubtedly secreted. But due to the fact that he served US interests, US state media will make him into individual he was not. And just compare their favourite cover to their strength on, or even support for, the ongoing perception of Julian Assange. Or their complete strength on the mystery and death of US citizen Gonzalo Lira in Ukrainian custody — universally ignored in US media.