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This video's information is out of date and is pushing discredited conspiracy theories.
Navalny's 'Putin's palace' claim has already fallen apart as the owner of the property has come forward (since over a week ago) and said they're developing it into a hotel that will open in 12 - 18 months. Other Russian journalists have visited and toured the property and filmed all the rooms on the inside, and they're all bare concrete, without any of the lavish decorations Navalny claimed there to be.
Following Navalny's poisoning and his 'Putin's palace' video, Navalny's trust-rating in Russia is at 5%, while Putin's latest approval rating is standing at 64% - according to US-funded Levada Centre (which is branded a foreign agent in Russia because it is US-funded).
https://twitter.com/Malinka1102/status/1357415295800004611
Navalny is a proud, far-right, anti-immigrant nationalist who is extremely xenophobic and has made racist comments, including celebrating the Holocaust by calling for a toast to it at an event in Moscow. He has also compared immigrants to tooth-rot and claimed they need to be deported to save Russia. He has also compared Muslims to cockroaches that need exterminating by shooting them.
https://youtu.be/DRP37r0Faao "Become a nationalist, deport immigrants!"
Navalny also says that to live in Russia a person must become a "true Russian", whatever that means. And he says that Crimea is rightfully a part of Russia and he wouldn't give it back if he were Russia's president - which is appropriate, but this view again shows that he is merely used as a convenient tool of the West, while he doesn't share the West's goals other than the goal of deposing Putin.
In short, the video is capitalizing on discredited conspiracy theories. Navalny's image as a champion of the people is entirely a Western propaganda construct. Navalny isn't feared by Russia's government. His sentencing is a result of a French cosmetics company accusing Navalny and his brother of embezzling $400,000 from the company. The French company, Yves Rocher, has said they stand by the charges and Russia's sentencing process.
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The video is filled with false information, though.
Navalny is a proud, far-right, anti-immigrant nationalist who is extremely xenophobic and has made racist comments, including celebrating the Holocaust by calling for a toast to it at an event in Moscow. He has also compared immigrants to tooth-rot and claimed they need to be deported to save Russia. He has also compared Muslims to cockroaches that need exterminating by shooting them.
https://youtu.be/DRP37r0Faao "Become a nationalist, deport immigrants!"
Navalny's 'Putin's palace' claim has already fallen apart as the owner of the property has come forward (since over a week ago) and said they're developing it into a hotel that will open in 12 - 18 months. Other Russian journalists have visited and toured the property and filmed all the rooms on the inside, and they're all bare concrete, without any of the lavish decorations Navalny claimed there to be.
Following Navalny's poisoning and his 'Putin's palace' video, Navalny's trust-rating in Russia is at 5%, while Putin's latest approval rating is standing at 64% - according to US-funded Levada Centre (which is branded a foreign agent in Russia because it is US-funded).
https://twitter.com/Malinka1102/status/1357415295800004611
Navalny also says that to live in Russia a person must become a "true Russian", whatever that means. And he says that Crimea is rightfully a part of Russia and he wouldn't give it back if he were Russia's president - which is appropriate, but this view again shows that he is merely used as a convenient tool of the West, while he doesn't share the West's goals other than the goal of deposing Putin.
In short, the video is capitalizing on discredited conspiracy theories. Navalny's image as a champion of the people is entirely a Western propaganda construct. Navalny isn't feared by Russia's government. His sentencing is a result of a French cosmetics company accusing Navalny and his brother of embezzling $400,000 from the company. The French company, Yves Rocher, has said they stand by the charges and Russia's sentencing process.
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The video is filled with disinfo, though.
Navalny is a proud, far-right, anti-immigrant nationalist who is extremely xenophobic and has made racist comments, including celebrating the Holocaust by calling for a toast to it at an event in Moscow, comparing immigrants to tooth-rot and claiming they need to be deported to save Russia, and comparing Muslims to cockroaches that need exterminating by shooting them.
https://youtu.be/DRP37r0Faao "Become a nationalist, deport immigrants!"
Navalny's 'Putin's palace' claim has already fallen apart as the owner of the property has come forward (since over a week ago) and said they're developing it into a hotel that will open in 12 - 18 months. Other Russian journalists have visited and toured the property and filmed all the rooms on the inside, and they're all bare concrete, without any of the lavish decorations Navalny claimed there to be.
Following Navalny's poisoning and his 'Putin's palace' video, Navalny's trust-rating in Russia is at 5%, while Putin's latest approval rating is standing at 64% - according to US-funded Levada Centre (which is branded a foreign agent in Russia because it is US-funded).
https://twitter.com/Malinka1102/status/1357415295800004611
Navalny also says that to live in Russia a person must become a "true Russian", whatever that means. And he says that Crimea is rightfully a part of Russia and he wouldn't give it back if he were Russia's president - which is appropriate, but this view again shows that he is merely used as a convenient tool of the West, while he doesn't share the West's goals other than the depose Putin.
In short, the video is capitalizing on discredited conspiracy theories. Navalny's image as a champion of the people is entirely a Western propaganda construct. Navalny isn't feared by Russia's government. His sentencing is a result of a French cosmetics company accusing Navalny and his brother of embezzling $400,000 from the company. The French company, Yves Rocher, has said they stand by the charges and Russia's sentencing process.
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@marasm5258 Because he's not mindless. He gave the girl encouragement and understanding rather than a personal opinion. Just saying 'Yes' or 'No' would be silly.
Just a heads-up for people: The accounts "White Wall", "William Sam", "Fi Bryar", "Fatty Hendo", and probably others, are all operated by the same person who pretends to be different people with them. They are extremely aggressive, impulsive, can be stalking, and difficult to explain things to. And they have no restraint or compunction against making lies of any size, big or small, even when you'd think it's impossible for them to not know that you know that they're lying. They don't accept correction and are unyielding in their initial insistence. I believe this is because they are on the spectrum.
This person has been extremely sensitive to any talk about Ukraine's large troll farm program and can spend an entire day, more than 10 hours straight, non-stop, saying the same inane or whitewashing comment about it. In general, they mentally block-out all information that doesn't tell them what they want to hear, no matter how inarguably and demonstrably factual it is. They will also pretend they didn't get answers they received to their questions just so that they can continue to badger someone with the already-answered question and pretend with themselves that they're "owning" someone for not getting an answer. It is as detached from reality and normal sanity as it sounds.
With each of their accounts, they show the same very poor English grammar and phrasing, and are sometimes completely unintelligible - especially when they become upset. Yet, even when they're at their very most incoherent, as in, posting fully unintelligible gibberish, they maintain an insistence that they're speaking perfect English. When they spend more time working out a post they can make it appear a bit more normal, though there's typically always some oddities in their writing style. Again, I believe they are on the spectrum and that their behaviour is a result of that.
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Just because someone makes a video doesn't mean the video is factual. And this video is filled with disinfo.
Navalny is a proud, far-right, anti-immigrant nationalist who is extremely xenophobic and has made racist comments, including celebrating the Holocaust by calling for a toast to it at an event in Moscow, comparing immigrants to tooth-rot and claiming they need to be deported to save Russia, and comparing Muslims to cockroaches that need exterminating by shooting them.
https://youtu.be/DRP37r0Faao "Become a nationalist, deport immigrants!"
Navalny's 'Putin's palace' claim has already fallen apart as the owner of the property has come forward (since over a week ago) and said they're developing it into a hotel that will open in 12 - 18 months. Other Russian journalists have visited and toured the property and filmed all the rooms on the inside, and they're all bare concrete, without any of the lavish decorations Navalny claimed there to be.
Following Navalny's poisoning and his 'Putin's palace' video, Navalny's trust-rating in Russia is at 5%, while Putin's latest approval rating is standing at 64% - according to US-funded Levada Centre (which is branded a foreign agent in Russia because it is US-funded).
https://twitter.com/Malinka1102/status/1357415295800004611
Navalny also says that to live in Russia a person must become a "true Russian", whatever that means. And he says that Crimea is rightfully a part of Russia and he wouldn't give it back if he were Russia's president - which is appropriate, but this view again shows that he is merely used as a convenient tool of the West, while he doesn't share the West's goals other than the depose Putin.
In short, the video is capitalizing on discredited conspiracy theories. Navalny's image as a champion of the people is entirely a Western propaganda construct. Navalny isn't feared by Russia's government. His sentencing is a result of a French cosmetics company accusing Navalny and his brother of embezzling $400,000 from the company. The French company, Yves Rocher, has said they stand by the charges and Russia's sentencing process.
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The reason Navalny was arrested upon his return to Russia is because he was serving that suspended prison sentence for embezzlement charges made by French cosmetics company, Yves Rocher. And the European Court of Human Rights, which ruled that Navalny and his brother's trial wasn't fair also dismissed Navalny's appeal that the charges were politically motivated.
While Navalny was in Germany receiving treatment, Russia's Penitentiary Service didn't require Navalny to adhere to their probation term which required him to check-in twice a month. But after he was discharged from the German hospital, and after the hospital published a report saying Navalny was fully recovered, Russia's Penitentiary Service told Navalny that he had to return to Russia and check-in again, otherwise he would be arrested upon his return to Russia and might have his suspended sentence turned into a prison sentence. Navalny chose to ignore the warning and stayed out of Russia a week or so beyond the date he was required to return. So, as he had been told would happen, he was arrested. And in his sentencing hearing, the German hospital's report of Navalny's full recovery was cited as evidence against Navalny's claim he couldn't have returned sooner.
Do you know what happens in the US when you skip bail and violate the terms of a suspended sentence? You're arrested and your suspended sentence is changed into a prison sentence. And as Navalny is a high-profile person, any exception made for him (and I don't know why he'd get an exception in this case) would affect Russia's prison authority's ability to apply their rules to others.
The depiction of Navalny as a champion of Russians is a Western propaganda construct. following his poisoning, Levada Centre reports his approval rating soared to 20%, while his disapproval rating also soared to 50%.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-politics-navalny-idUSKBN26N1Z9
Here's an article on a Spanish-Jewish site featuring various anti-Semitic and anti-immigrant quotes made by Navalny:
https://itongadol.com/noticias/73171-moscow-mayor-hopeful-raises-jewish-fears-with-anti-semitic-remarks
And here's an undercover video recently released showing Navalny's top aide requesting $20 million in funding from a UK intel officer.
https://www.rt.com/russia/514291-navalny-aide-funding-alleged-british-spy/
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The video is filled with false information, though.
Navalny is a proud, far-right, anti-immigrant nationalist who is extremely xenophobic and has made racist comments, including celebrating the Holocaust by calling for a toast to it at an event in Moscow, comparing immigrants to tooth-rot and claiming they need to be deported to save Russia, and comparing Muslims to cockroaches that need exterminating by shooting them.
https://youtu.be/DRP37r0Faao "Become a nationalist, deport immigrants!"
Navalny's 'Putin's palace' claim has already fallen apart as the owner of the property has come forward (since over a week ago, I think) and said they're developing it into a hotel that will open in 12 - 18 months. Other Russian journalists have visited and toured the property and filmed all the rooms on the inside, and they're all bare concrete, without any of the lavish decorations Navalny claimed there to be.
Following Navalny's poisoning and 'Putin's palace' video, Navalny's trust-rating in Russia is at 5%, while Putin's latest approval rating is standing at 64% - according to US-funded Levada Centre.
https://twitter.com/Malinka1102/status/1357415295800004611
Navalny also says that to live in Russia a person must become a "true Russian", whatever that means. And he says that Crimea is rightfully a part of Russia and he wouldn't give it back if he were Russia's president - which is appropriate, but this view again shows that he is merely used as a convenient tool of the West, while he doesn't share the West's goals other than the depose Putin.
In short, the video is capitalizing on discredited conspiracy theories. Navalny's image as a champion of the people is entirely a Western propaganda construct. Navalny isn't feared by Russia's government. His sentencing is a result of a French cosmetics company accusing Navalny and his brother of embezzling $400,000 from the company. The French company, Yves Rocher, has said they stand by the charges and Russia's sentencing process.
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I would say that 80%+ of Johnny’s video is extremely-false information, and that it seems as though he started ‘researching’ just 2 weeks ago, and mostly just read some NYT articles (as an example of an outlet which never utters an honest word regarding anything related to Russia) and picked-up on some sneering anti-Putin conspiracy theories online, and then assumed he had it all worked out filled in the gaps with his imagination and put the concoction he’d come-up with into video form.
This isn't a matter of opinion and point-of-view, his video is primarily based in false ideas and narratives, of the sort that's inventive hearsay spread among sneering detractors. It’s largely opposite to the facts and is instead very sensationalist through sacrificing important facts.
Johnny claims that Navalny was arrested upon his return to Russia from recovering in Germany on "some old fake set of charges brought against him years ago that were thrown out later, they were totally fake". None of that is at-all true. The charges of embezzlement, brought by French cosmetics company Yves Rocher, were not fake and they weren't thrown-out - hence he had a suspended sentence. Navalny brought a complaint about the charges to the European Court of Human Rights, and the ECHR decided that the ruling against Navalny and his brother had been "arbitrary and manifestly unreasonable", but the ECHR didn't throw out the charges nor did they have the authority to. Additionally, the ECHR heard Navalny's appeal to have the charges construed as politically-motivated, but the ECHR dismissed Navalny's appeal of that. So, when he later calls Navalny's sentencing "politically-motivated", he's asserting something that wasn't deemed to be the case by the ECHR.
He also says that the pretext for Navalny's arrest was that he violated his parole terms, and he adds, "Turns-out he couldn't report to parole, officers, because he was in a coma from being poisoned by the Russian government". That's a lie which I believe is absolutely impossible for him to not have known was a lie when he made his video, because Navalny only had to return and check-in with the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service by the end of his probation period, on December 29th. But Navalny was discharged from the German hospital on September 23rd. That's over 3 months of difference, where Navalny wasn't in a coma and wasn't hospitalized. Further, the German hospital made a report mid-December stating that Navalny had recovered - and that report was cited during his sentencing hearing to show that he was able to return and check-in despite him not doing so.
Not that Navalny needed to be reminded of his parole terms for it to be legally binding, he's an adult who is responsible for himself and not a child, but Russia's Penitentiary Service did give him a last-minute warning that he had to return to make the final check-in otherwise he would be arrested upon his return to Russia. For the 4 months he'd been away in Germany, including all the time he was in a coma and for a very long time after that, Navalny's not-checking-in twice a month as his parole conditions required wasn't held against him and was never even mentioned as leverage against him in any way.
Russia's Federal Penitentiary Service could have required Navalny to return to Russia sooner, but the only check-in Navalny was absolutely required to do was the final one, by December 29th. Navalny knew that, but he chose to stay in Germany for 2.5 weeks beyond that date.
Do you know what happens in the US when you skip probation and violate the terms of a suspended sentence? You're arrested and your suspended sentence is changed into a prison sentence. And as Navalny is a high-profile person, any exception made for him (and I don't know why he'd get an exception in this case beyond the unofficial exemption from having to check-in while he was recovering in Germany) would affect Russia's prison authority's ability to apply their rules to others.
Just some select other issues I have with his video are these, though there are also others that I'm not listing here:
His video doesn't mention the corruption scandals Navalny has been embroiled in, his racism and fierce xenophobia, the fact that 5,000 or a few times that number of protesters, and around 1,000 protesters arrested in the Moscow metropolitan area, the population of which is over 20 million, is statistically insignificant, or that Navalny's top aide was recorded seeking $20 million in funding from UK spies offering billions of 'you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours' payback when Navalny becomes Russia's president - which has been a serious goal of Navalny's even though Johnny downplayed it in his video.
What he said about Novichok, who has developed it, the idea that it's a signature, is also 100% false and more of a cartoonish kind of an imaginative narrative. Many countries, including the US, UK, Czech, Iran, and others, have made Novichok, and the US took over the USSR's supplies of Novichok in 1991 when the US was responsible for the dismantling of the USSR's Uzbekistan chemical facilities where Novichok was made and stored. The US showed interest in patenting weaponized Novichok in 2015, and held discussions with Russia on the matter. The method to create Novichok was put into a book by its creator that is publicly available and can be purchased through Amazon. Novichok is not prohibitively difficult to make and the former head of the OPCW and many chemical experts have refuted the claim otherwise. I could expand a huge amount on this topic alone in a standalone post.
Bluntly, his video is either horrendously under-researched, or it's lying and deliberate propaganda. I'm shocked by the number of false claims and deferrals to conspiracy theories and cartoon visions that are contained in it. This isn't something anyone who considers themselves to be a journalist should be doing. And it certainly isn’t anything worth praising. The fact that it is convincing people of complete falsehoods makes it all the worse.
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@omggom2488 As you request. I hope you'll read my response detailing significant false information in Johnny's video. And there's far more that I haven't addressed here.
I would say that 80%+ of Johnny’s video is extremely-false information, and that it seems as though he started ‘researching’ just 2 weeks ago, and mostly just read some NYT articles (as an example of an outlet which never utters an honest word regarding anything related to Russia) and picked-up on some sneering anti-Putin conspiracy theories online, and then assumed he had it all worked out filled in the gaps with his imagination and put the concoction he’d come-up with into video form.
This isn't a matter of opinion and point-of-view, his video is primarily based in false ideas and narratives, of the sort that's inventive hearsay spread among sneering detractors. It’s largely opposite to the facts and is instead very sensationalist through sacrificing important facts.
Here are just a few examples of his ignorance or lies, whichever they may be.
Johnny claims that Navalny was arrested upon his return to Russia from recovering in Germany on "some old fake set of charges brought against him years ago that were thrown out later, they were totally fake". None of that is at-all true. The charges of embezzlement, brought by French cosmetics company Yves Rocher, were not fake and they weren't thrown-out - hence he had a suspended sentence. Navalny brought a complaint about the charges to the European Court of Human Rights, and the ECHR decided that the ruling against Navalny and his brother had been "arbitrary and manifestly unreasonable", but the ECHR didn't throw out the charges nor did they have the authority to. Additionally, the ECHR heard Navalny's appeal to have the charges construed as politically-motivated, but the ECHR dismissed Navalny's appeal of that. So, when he later calls Navalny's sentencing "politically-motivated", he's asserting something that wasn't deemed to be the case by the ECHR.
He also says that the pretext for Navalny's arrest was that he violated his parole terms, and he adds, "Turns-out he couldn't report to parole, officers, because he was in a coma from being poisoned by the Russian government". That's a lie which I believe is absolutely impossible for him to not have known was a lie when he made his video, because Navalny only had to return and check-in with the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service by the end of his probation period, on December 29th. But Navalny was discharged from the German hospital on September 23rd. That's over 3 months of difference, where Navalny wasn't in a coma and wasn't hospitalized. Further, the German hospital made a report mid-December stating that Navalny had recovered - and that report was cited during his sentencing hearing to show that he was able to return and check-in despite him not doing so.
Not that Navalny needed to be reminded of his parole terms for it to be legally binding, he's an adult who is responsible for himself and not a child, but Russia's Penitentiary Service did give him a last-minute warning that he had to return to make the final check-in otherwise he would be arrested upon his return to Russia. For the 4 months he'd been away in Germany, including all the time he was in a coma and for a very long time after that, Navalny's not-checking-in twice a month as his parole conditions required wasn't held against him and was never even mentioned as leverage against him in any way.
Russia's Federal Penitentiary Service could have required Navalny to return to Russia sooner, but the only check-in Navalny was absolutely required to do was the final one, by December 29th. Navalny knew that, but he chose to stay in Germany for 2.5 weeks beyond that date.
Do you know what happens in the US when you skip probation and violate the terms of a suspended sentence? You're arrested and your suspended sentence is changed into a prison sentence. And as Navalny is a high-profile person, any exception made for him (and I don't know why he'd get an exception in this case beyond the unofficial exemption from having to check-in while he was recovering in Germany) would affect Russia's prison authority's ability to apply their rules to others.
Just some select other issues I have with his video are these, though there are lots of others that I'm not listing here:
His video doesn't mention the corruption scandals Navalny has been embroiled in, his racism and fierce xenophobia, the fact that 5,000 or a few times that number of protesters, and around 1,000 protesters arrested in the Moscow metropolitan area, the population of which is over 20 million, is statistically insignificant, or that Navalny's top aide was recorded seeking $20 million in funding from UK spies offering billions of 'you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours' payback when Navalny becomes Russia's president - which has been a serious goal of Navalny's even though Johnny downplayed it in his video.
What he said about Novichok, who has developed it, the idea that it's a signature, is also 100% false and more of a cartoonish kind of an imaginative narrative. Many countries, including the US, UK, Czech, Iran, and others, have made Novichok, and the US took over the USSR's supplies of Novichok in 1991 when the US was responsible for the dismantling of the USSR's Uzbekistan chemical facilities where Novichok was made and stored. The US showed interest in patenting weaponized Novichok in 2015, and held discussions with Russia on the matter. The method to create Novichok was put into a book by its creator that is publicly available and can be purchased through Amazon. Novichok is not prohibitively difficult to make and the former head of the OPCW and many chemical experts have refuted the claim otherwise. I could expand a huge amount on this topic alone in a standalone post.
Bluntly, his video is either horrendously under-researched, or it's lying and deliberate propaganda. I'm shocked by the number of false claims and deferrals to conspiracy theories and cartoon visions that are contained in it. This isn't something anyone who considers themselves to be a journalist should be doing. And it certainly isn’t anything worth praising. The fact that it is convincing people of complete falsehoods makes it all the worse.
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There is much disinfo in your video. Navalny is a far-right proud anti-immigrant nationalist who is extremely xenophobic and has made racist comments, including celebrating the Holocaust by calling for a toast to it at an event in Moscow, comparing immigrants to tooth-rot and claiming they need to be deported to save Russia, and comparing Muslims to cockroaches that need exterminating by shooting them.
https://youtu.be/DRP37r0Faao "Become a nationalist, deport immigrants!"
Navalny's 'Putin's palace' claim has already fallen apart as the owner of the property has come forward (since over a week ago, I think) and said they're developing it into a hotel that will open in 12 - 18 months. Other Russian journalists have visited and toured the property and filmed all the rooms on the inside, and they're all bare concrete, without any of the lavish decorations Navalny claimed there to be.
Following Navalny's poisoning and 'Putin's palace' video, Navalny's trust-rating in Russia is at 5%, while Putin's latest approval rating is standing at 64% - according to US-funded Levada Centre.
https://twitter.com/Malinka1102/status/1357415295800004611
Navalny also says that to live in Russia a person must become a "true Russian", whatever that means. And he says that Crimea is rightfully a part of Russia and he wouldn't give it back if he were Russia's president - which is appropriate, but this view again shows that he is merely used as a convenient tool of the West, while he doesn't share the West's goals other than the depose Putin.
In short, your video is capitalizing on discredited conspiracy theories. Navalny's image as a champion of the people is entirely a Western propaganda construct. Navalny isn't feared by Russia's government. His sentencing is a result of a French cosmetics company accusing Navalny and his brother of embezzling $400,000 from the company. The French company, Yves Rocher, has said they stand by the charges and Russia's sentencing process.
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@expirednachos Hi Lili. For a decent answer to your question, please see the post I just made right above this one. I could post a lot more, too. But YT will only let me include so much text and links before comments disappear. In addition to that comment, read this Jewish
https://itongadol.com/noticias/73171-moscow-mayor-hopeful-raises-jewish-fears-with-anti-semitic-remarks
Alexei Navalny, the so-called "defender of Russian democracy" known in the West for his opposition to President Vladimir Putin and who is running for Mayor of Moscow in the September 8 election, is raising fear and concern among Jews and other minorities in the capital with his anti-Semitic and xenophobic remarks.
In a party celebrating the anniversary of the newspaper The New Times, the 37-year-old Russian blogger suggested that they "make the first toast for the Holocaust"; he referred to religious Jews in his blog as: "dandies in fox hats and rags" and stated that "whoever wants to live in Russia has to become Russian – in the full sense of the word."
Calling for total foreigner cleansing, Navalny’s supporters threatened Jews and other minorities, who are afraid to openly come out against the candidate.
Jews are not the only ethnic minority on the "liberal candidate\’s" mind. In a video distributed in Moscow, he identifies dark skinned Caucasians as cockroaches and states that: though one can kill cockroaches with a shoe, when it comes to human beings, I recommend using a gun."
Alexei Navalny who regularly insists on taking part in the nationalistic demonstration "Russian Marsh" (Ruskiy Marsh), has incited the skinheads in the marsh, by elaborating his ideas on immigrants and foreigners in the country. He declared: "This is our country, and it is our duty to eliminate all the crooks who suck our blood … All immigrants are like dental caries, destroying the Russian public. There is no need to hit anybody – whoever is in our way will be deported by a strong hand. There is a need for full cleansing/disinfection."
When accused of being a dangerous nationalist, Navalny stated: "nationalism is dangerous only when it is in underground – when it is part of the government it becomes more moderate," adding that "the mayor of Rome is also a neo – fascist and so far, there were no pogroms in the city.’’
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Hi. I would say that the large majority of Johnny's video is false information. And I've made some responses to him that I hope he reads concerning inaccurate statements in the video. I'll included part of what I've mentioned to him below, after I mention a couple of other points.
Following Navalny's poisoning and 'Putin's palace' video, the owner of the property has come forward to say that they are developing it into a hotel which will open in 12 - 18 months. And after the Navalny video released, US-funded pollster Levada Centre surveyed Russians of their views concerning the video and reported that just 17% of Russians believe the claims in the video, while Navalny is considered trustworthy by just 5% of Russia's population. Levada also reports Putin's current domestic support level to be 64%.
Here is part of one of my responses to Johnny, detailing just a few issues I've found with the claims in his video:
"You claim that Navalny was arrested upon his return to Russia from recovering in Germany on "some old fake set of charges brought against him years ago that were thrown out later, they were totally fake". None of that is at-all true. The charges of embezzlement, brought by French cosmetics company Yves Rocher, were not fake and they weren't thrown-out - hence he had a suspended sentence. Navalny brought a complaint about the charges to the European Court of Human Rights, and the ECHR decided that the ruling against Navalny and his brother had been "arbitrary and manifestly unreasonable", but the ECHR didn't throw out the charges nor did they have the authority to. Additionally, the ECHR heard Navalny's appeal to have the charges construed as politically-motivated, but the ECHR dismissed Navalny's appeal of that. So, when you later call Navalny's sentencing "politically-motivated", you're asserting something that wasn't deemed to be the case.
You also say that the pretext for Navalny's arrest was that he violated his parole terms, and you add, "Turns-out he couldn't report to parole, officers, because he was in a coma from being poisoned by the Russian government". That's a lie which I believe is absolutely impossible for you to not have known was a lie when you made your video, because Navalny only had to return and check-in with the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service by the end of his probation period, on December 29th. But Navalny was discharged from the German hospital on September 23rd. That's over 3 months of difference, where Navalny wasn't in a coma and wasn't hospitalized. Further, the German hospital made a report mid-December stating that Navalny had recovered - and that report was cited during his sentencing hearing to show that he was able to return and check-in despite him not doing so.
Not that Navalny needed to be reminded of his parole terms for it to be legally binding, he's an adult who is responsible for himself and not a child, but Russia's Penitentiary Service did give him a last-minute warning that he had to return to make the final check-in otherwise he would be arrested upon his return to Russia. For the 4 months he'd been away in Germany, including all the time he was in a coma and for a very long time after that, Navalny's not-checking-in twice a month as his parole conditions required wasn't held against him and was never even mentioned as leverage against him in any way.
Russia's Federal Penitentiary Service could have required Navalny to return to Russia sooner, but the only check-in Navalny was absolutely required to do was the final one, by December 29th. Navalny knew that, but he chose to stay in Germany for 2.5 weeks beyond that date.
Do you know what happens in the US when you skip probation and violate the terms of a suspended sentence? You're arrested and your suspended sentence is changed into a prison sentence. And as Navalny is a high-profile person, any exception made for him (and I don't know why he'd get an exception in this case beyond the unofficial exemption from having to check-in while he was recovering in Germany) would affect Russia's prison authority's ability to apply their rules to others.
Just some select other issues I have with your video are these, though there are also some others that I'm not listing here:
Your video also doesn't mention the corruption scandals Navalny has been embroiled in, his racism and fierce xenophobia, the fact that 5,000 or a few times that number of protesters, and around 1,000 protesters arrested in the Moscow metropolitan area, the population of which is over 20 million, is statistically insignificant, or that Navalny's top aide was recorded seeking $20 million in funding from UK spies offering billions of 'you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours' payback when Navalny becomes Russia's president - which has been a serious goal of Navalny's even though you downplayed it in your video.
What you said about Novichok, who's developed it, the idea that it's a signature, is also 100% false and more of that child's kind of a cartoonish narrative. Many countries, including the US, UK, Czech, Iran, and others, have made Novichok, and the US took over the USSR's supplies of Novichok in 1991 when the US was responsible for the dismantling of the USSR's Uzbekistan chemical facilities where Novichok was made and stored. The US showed interest in patenting weaponized Novichok in 2015, and held discussions with Russia on the matter. The method to create Novichok was put into a book by its creator that is publicly available and can be purchased through Amazon. Novichok is not prohibitively difficult to make and the former head of the OPCW and many chemical experts have refuted the claim otherwise. I could expand a huge amount on this topic alone in a standalone post (whether I'm going to I'm yet undecided)."
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Just a heads-up for people: The accounts "White Wall", "William Sam", "Fi Bryar", "Fatty Hendo", and probably others, are all operated by the same person who pretends to be different people with them. They are extremely aggressive, impulsive, can be stalking, and difficult to explain things to. And they have no restraint or compunction against making lies of any size, big or small, even when you'd think it's impossible for them to not know that you know that they're lying. They don't accept correction and are unyielding in their initial insistence. I believe this is because they are on the spectrum.
This person has been extremely sensitive to any talk about Ukraine's large troll farm program and can spend an entire day, more than 10 hours straight, non-stop, saying the same inane or whitewashing comment about it. In general, they mentally block-out all information that doesn't tell them what they want to hear, no matter how inarguably and demonstrably factual it is. They will also pretend they didn't get answers they received to their questions just so that they can continue to badger someone with the already-answered question and pretend with themselves that they're "owning" someone for not getting an answer. It is as detached from reality and normal sanity as it sounds.
With each of their accounts, they show the same very poor English grammar and phrasing, and are sometimes completely unintelligible - especially when they become upset. Yet, even when they're at their very most incoherent, as in, posting fully unintelligible gibberish, they maintain an insistence that they're speaking perfect English. When they spend more time working out a post they can make it appear a bit more normal, though there's typically always some oddities in their writing style. Again, I believe they are on the spectrum and that their behaviour is a result of that.
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@gazonchek8116 "In Russia, we have a company owned by Russian oligarchs that paid money to people like this to create the right opinion on the internet."
Sadly, that's normal everywhere. Israel's government has employed troll farms since 2008. In the US, since 2011, the US government spends $200 million per year on troll farms to do the same thing. The DNC also has their own troll farms. Canada has had troll farms since 2011. The UK government has a variety of aggressive troll farms and their online-discussion-disruption field guide leaked back in 2014, and what it instructs UK trolls to do is nasty. Ukraine has a large troll farm. Poland, China, and many other countries also have troll farms.
So, that "rabbit hole" you mentioned isn't unique to Russia, it's a widespread issue - and it was pioneered by Israel, the US, and Canada, and not Russia. Russia only started doing what the West and Israel were doing first.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-operation-social-networks
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@fsho5260 What I've said isn't irrelevant. It shows:
- That Navalny's 'Putin's palace' story is already being credibly discredited
- That the Russian people don't trust Navalny (so, why should you?), with only 5% considering him trustworthy
- That the Russian people don't buy into Navalny's 'Putin's palace' story (so, why should you?)
- That Navalny's claim of being persecuted on political grounds isn't supported because there are legitimate grounds for what is happening, and the EUCR dismissed Navalny's appeal that the Yves Rocher charges against him are politically motivated
- That Navalny isn't the hero he's depicted as in Western propaganda media, so reporting which presents him as what he isn't should be suspect in all of its claims, because it is unreliable
One of the links I posted above deals with the issue of whether Russians think Putin is as corrupts as Navalny alleges. And, guess what? They don't give any special credence to his his claims - and why should they, given the track-record of Navalny's claims, and the fact his 'Putin's palace' story is already seemingly falling apart?
"Almost a third of those polled (29%) believe that Vladimir Putin has never abused his power. Another 24% are sure that even if such accusations are true, the country began to live better under him. 17% believe that Vladimir Putin is definitely guilty of abuses, 25% - that he is guilty as much as other high-ranking officials. "
By the way, it's likely that the US poisoned Navalny as a last-ditch effort to push EU countries to abandon Nord Stream 2.
https://sainomia.medium.com/the-obvious-false-flag-that-is-navalnys-poisoning-deef1d023bdb
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Just a heads-up for people: The accounts "White Wall", "William Sam", "Fi Bryar", "Fatty Hendo", and probably others, are all operated by the same person who pretends to be different people with them. They are extremely aggressive, impulsive, can be stalking, and difficult to explain things to. And they have no restraint or compunction against making lies of any size, big or small, even when you'd think it's impossible for them to not know that you know that they're lying. They don't accept correction and are unyielding in their initial insistence. I believe this is because they are on the spectrum.
This person has been extremely sensitive to any talk about Ukraine's large troll farm program and can spend an entire day, more than 10 hours straight, non-stop, saying the same inane or whitewashing comment about it. In general, they mentally block-out all information that doesn't tell them what they want to hear, no matter how inarguably and demonstrably factual it is. They will also pretend they didn't get answers they received to their questions just so that they can continue to badger someone with the already-answered question and pretend with themselves that they're "owning" someone for not getting an answer. It is as detached from reality and normal sanity as it sounds.
With each of their accounts, they show the same very poor English grammar and phrasing, and are sometimes completely unintelligible - especially when they become upset. Yet, even when they're at their very most incoherent, as in, posting fully unintelligible gibberish, they maintain an insistence that they're speaking perfect English. When they spend more time working out a post they can make it appear a bit more normal, though there's typically always some oddities in their writing style. Again, I believe they are on the spectrum and that their behaviour is a result of that.
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Do you know that 80%+ of your video is extremely-false information? I think I have to write a longer response to you about this at a later time. But what I've seen in this video makes it look like you just started 'researching' 2 weeks ago and simply read some NYT articles and some internet allegations and conspiracy theories from partial sources, and then assumed you had the facts and put them together in your video with a hefty dose of imagination thrown in. This isn't a matter of opinion and point-of-view, your video is primarily based in false ideas and narratives, of the sort that's inventive hearsay spread among sneering detractors. Your video is largely not factual and opposite to the facts. It is very sensationalist through sacrificing important facts.
For now, here's just a couple of examples of its false claims looked at in detail:
You claim that Navalny was arrested upon his return to Russia from recovering in Germany on "some old fake set of charges brought against him years ago that were thrown out later, they were totally fake". None of that is at-all true. The charges of embezzlement, brought by French cosmetics company Yves Rocher, were not fake and they weren't thrown-out - hence he had a suspended sentence. Navalny brought a complaint about the charges to the European Court of Human Rights, and the ECHR decided that the ruling against Navalny and his brother had been "arbitrary and manifestly unreasonable", but the ECHR didn't throw out the charges nor did they have the authority to. Additionally, the ECHR heard Navalny's appeal to have the charges construed as politically-motivated, but the ECHR dismissed Navalny's appeal of that. So, when you later call Navalny's sentencing "politically-motivated", you're asserting something that wasn't deemed to be the case.
You also say that the pretext for Navalny's arrest was that he violated his parole terms, and you add, "Turns-out he couldn't report to parole, officers, because he was in a coma from being poisoned by the Russian government". That's a lie which I believe is absolutely impossible for you to not have known was a lie when you made your video, because Navalny only had to return and check-in with the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service by the end of his probation period, on December 29th. But Navalny was discharged from the German hospital on September 23rd. That's over 3 months of difference, where Navalny wasn't in a coma and wasn't hospitalized. Further, the German hospital made a report mid-December stating that Navalny had recovered - and that report was cited during his sentencing hearing to show that he was able to return and check-in despite him not doing so.
Not that Navalny needed to be reminded of his parole terms for it to be legally binding, he's an adult who is responsible for himself and not a child, but Russia's Penitentiary Service did give him a last-minute warning that he had to return to make the final check-in otherwise he would be arrested upon his return to Russia. For the 4 months he'd been away in Germany, including all the time he was in a coma and for a very long time after that, Navalny's not-checking-in twice a month as his parole conditions required wasn't held against him and was never even mentioned as leverage against him in any way.
Russia's Federal Penitentiary Service could have required Navalny to return to Russia sooner, but the only check-in Navalny was absolutely required to do was the final one, by December 29th. Navalny knew that, but he chose to stay in Germany for 2.5 weeks beyond that date.
Do you know what happens in the US when you skip probation and violate the terms of a suspended sentence? You're arrested and your suspended sentence is changed into a prison sentence. And as Navalny is a high-profile person, any exception made for him (and I don't know why he'd get an exception in this case beyond the unofficial exemption from having to check-in while he was recovering in Germany) would affect Russia's prison authority's ability to apply their rules to others.
Just some select other issues I have with your video are these, though there are also some others that I'm not listing here:
Your video also doesn't mention the corruption scandals Navalny has been embroiled in, his racism and fierce xenophobia, the fact that 5,000 or a few times that number of protesters, and around 1,000 protesters arrested in the Moscow metropolitan area, the population of which is over 20 million, is statistically insignificant, or that Navalny's top aide was recorded seeking $20 million in funding from UK spies offering billions of 'you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours' payback when Navalny becomes Russia's president - which has been a serious goal of Navalny's even though you downplayed it in your video.
What you said about Novichok, who's developed it, the idea that it's a signature, is also 100% false and more of that child's kind of a cartoonish narrative. Many countries, including the US, UK, Czech, Iran, and others, have made Novichok, and the US took over the USSR's supplies of Novichok in 1991 when the US was responsible for the dismantling of the USSR's Uzbekistan chemical facilities where Novichok was made and stored. The US showed interest in patenting weaponized Novichok in 2015, and held discussions with Russian on the matter. The method to create Novichok was put into a book by its creator that is publicly available and can be purchased through Amazon. Novichok is not prohibitively difficult to make and the former head of the OPCW and many chemical experts have refuted the claim otherwise. I could expand a huge amount on this topic alone in a standalone post (whether I'm going to I'm yet undecided).
Bluntly, your video is either horrendously under-researched, or it's lying and deliberate propaganda. I'm shocked by the number of false claims and deferrals to conspiracy theories and cartoon visions that are contained in it. This isn't something anyone who considers themselves to be a journalist should be doing.
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Just a heads-up for people: The accounts "White Wall", "William Sam", "Fi Bryar", "Fatty Hendo", and probably others, are all operated by the same person who pretends to be different people with them. They are extremely aggressive, impulsive, can be stalking, and difficult to explain things to. And they have no restraint or compunction against making lies of any size, big or small, even when you'd think it's impossible for them to not know that you know that they're lying. They don't accept correction and are unyielding in their initial insistence. I believe this is because they are on the spectrum.
This person has been extremely sensitive to any talk about Ukraine's large troll farm program and can spend an entire day, more than 10 hours straight, non-stop, saying the same inane or whitewashing comment about it. In general, they mentally block-out all information that doesn't tell them what they want to hear, no matter how inarguably and demonstrably factual it is. They will also pretend they didn't get answers they received to their questions just so that they can continue to badger someone with the already-answered question and pretend with themselves that they're "owning" someone for not getting an answer. It is as detached from reality and normal sanity as it sounds.
With each of their accounts, they show the same very poor English grammar and phrasing, and are sometimes completely unintelligible - especially when they become upset. Yet, even when they're at their very most incoherent, as in, posting fully unintelligible gibberish, they maintain an insistence that they're speaking perfect English. When they spend more time working out a post they can make it appear a bit more normal, though there's typically always some oddities in their writing style. Again, I believe they are on the spectrum and that their behaviour is a result of that.
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@senyaiv " I just want the world to live in peace."
I want that too. That's why I post the truth because it is the truth. Disinformation doesn't create peace, but creates confusion, chaos, suspicion, anger, and other negative things - as can be seen in accusation of me being some 'Russian troll' just because I posted truth that is contrary to propaganda people have been told.
And that is why I've made comments in response to this video pointing-out issues with it, and why I've pointed-out the issue with the fictional narrative that troll farms are particularly a Russian thing - Russia was a late-comer to using troll farms. It's just that West, particularly the US and UK, have been effective in making propaganda to associate Russia with troll farms, despite that the US was using them years before Russia and spends far, far more money on them than Russia could possibly do.
Regarding checking the validity of things I've claimed, here's a comment I made pointing-out a bunch of wild inaccuracies with Johnny's video. The things I say here aren't difficult to verify yourself, and I'll even provide the link to the ECHR ruling so you can easily check what I write concerning it:
https://hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng#{%22tabview%22:[%22document%22],%22itemid%22:[%22001-177665%22]}
"[Johnny claimed] that Navalny was arrested upon his return to Russia from recovering in Germany on "some old fake set of charges brought against him years ago that were thrown out later, they were totally fake". None of that is at-all true. The charges of embezzlement, brought by French cosmetics company Yves Rocher, were not fake and they weren't thrown-out - hence he had a suspended sentence. Navalny brought a complaint about the charges to the European Court of Human Rights, and the ECHR decided that the ruling against Navalny and his brother had been "arbitrary and manifestly unreasonable", but the ECHR didn't throw out the charges nor did they have the authority to. Additionally, the ECHR heard Navalny's appeal to have the charges construed as politically-motivated, but the ECHR dismissed Navalny's appeal of that. So, when you later call Navalny's sentencing "politically-motivated", you're asserting something that wasn't deemed to be the case.
You also say that the pretext for Navalny's arrest was that he violated his parole terms, and you add, "Turns-out he couldn't report to parole, officers, because he was in a coma from being poisoned by the Russian government". That's a lie which I believe is absolutely impossible for you to not have known was a lie when you made your video, because Navalny only had to return and check-in with the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service by the end of his probation period, on December 29th. But Navalny was discharged from the German hospital on September 23rd. That's over 3 months of difference, where Navalny wasn't in a coma and wasn't hospitalized. Further, the German hospital made a report mid-December stating that Navalny had recovered - and that report was cited during his sentencing hearing to show that he was able to return and check-in despite him not doing so.
Not that Navalny needed to be reminded of his parole terms for it to be legally binding, he's an adult who is responsible for himself and not a child, but Russia's Penitentiary Service did give him a last-minute warning that he had to return to make the final check-in otherwise he would be arrested upon his return to Russia. For the 4 months he'd been away in Germany, including all the time he was in a coma and for a very long time after that, Navalny's not-checking-in twice a month as his parole conditions required wasn't held against him and was never even mentioned as leverage against him in any way.
Russia's Federal Penitentiary Service could have required Navalny to return to Russia sooner, but the only check-in Navalny was absolutely required to do was the final one, by December 29th. Navalny knew that, but he chose to stay in Germany for 2.5 weeks beyond that date.
Do you know what happens in the US when you skip probation and violate the terms of a suspended sentence? You're arrested and your suspended sentence is changed into a prison sentence. And as Navalny is a high-profile person, any exception made for him (and I don't know why he'd get an exception in this case beyond the unofficial exemption from having to check-in while he was recovering in Germany) would affect Russia's prison authority's ability to apply their rules to others.
Just some select other issues I have with your video are these, though there are also some others that I'm not listing here:
Your video also doesn't mention the corruption scandals Navalny has been embroiled in, his racism and fierce xenophobia, the fact that 5,000 or a few times that number of protesters, and around 1,000 protesters arrested in the Moscow metropolitan area, the population of which is over 20 million, is statistically insignificant, or that Navalny's top aide was recorded seeking $20 million in funding from UK spies offering billions of 'you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours' payback when Navalny becomes Russia's president - which has been a serious goal of Navalny's even though you downplayed it in your video.
What you said about Novichok, who's developed it, the idea that it's a signature, is also 100% false and more of that child's kind of a cartoonish narrative. Many countries, including the US, UK, Czech, Iran, and others, have made Novichok, and the US took over the USSR's supplies of Novichok in 1991 when the US was responsible for the dismantling of the USSR's Uzbekistan chemical facilities where Novichok was made and stored. The US showed interest in patenting weaponized Novichok in 2015, and held discussions with Russia on the matter. The method to create Novichok was put into a book by its creator that is publicly available and can be purchased through Amazon. Novichok is not prohibitively difficult to make and the former head of the OPCW and many chemical experts have refuted the claim otherwise. I could expand a huge amount on this topic alone in a standalone post (whether I'm going to I'm yet undecided)."
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Just a heads-up for people: The accounts "White Wall", "William Sam", "Fi Bryar", "Fatty Hendo", and probably others, are all operated by the same person who pretends to be different people with them. They are extremely aggressive, impulsive, can be stalking, and difficult to explain things to. And they have no restraint or compunction against making lies of any size, big or small, even when you'd think it's impossible for them to not know that you know that they're lying. They don't accept correction and are unyielding in their initial insistence. I believe this is because they are on the spectrum.
This person has been extremely sensitive to any talk about Ukraine's large troll farm program and can spend an entire day, more than 10 hours straight, non-stop, saying the same inane or whitewashing comment about it. In general, they mentally block-out all information that doesn't tell them what they want to hear, no matter how inarguably and demonstrably factual it is. They will also pretend they didn't get answers they received to their questions just so that they can continue to badger someone with the already-answered question and pretend with themselves that they're "owning" someone for not getting an answer. It is as detached from reality and normal sanity as it sounds.
With each of their accounts, they show the same very poor English grammar and phrasing, and are sometimes completely unintelligible - especially when they become upset. Yet, even when they're at their very most incoherent, as in, posting fully unintelligible gibberish, they maintain an insistence that they're speaking perfect English. When they spend more time working out a post they can make it appear a bit more normal, though there's typically always some oddities in their writing style. Again, I believe they are on the spectrum and that their behaviour is a result of that.
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@JoeyGirardin My saying that most of Johnny's video is false information isn't me claiming to know what happened to Navalny. However, it is plausible that the US could have poisoned him as a last-ditch effort to push EU countries to abandon the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which the US has been desperately trying to shut-down and which is nearing completion. Once completed, it will ensure Russia-EU relations get stronger, Russia will have a lot of profits from it, while US influence in Europe will lessen and the US won't be able to sell its own more-expensive LNG to Europe.
The US has been sanctioning the development of NS2 for a long time and was cocky that the project would be halted. Shortly before Navalny's poisoning, Mike "We lied, we cheated, we stole" Pompeo was boasting that the US gov't would be successful in stopping NS2, with no hint as to how. As soon as Navalny was poisoned, the US gov't was demanding that EU countries break-off their support for NS2 to show Russia that this won't be tolerated. I haven't noticed take any other new measures against NS2. So, if that wasn't what Mike "We lied, we cheated, we stole" Pompeo was planning, then I haven't yet seen what else he was referring to.
https://sainomia.medium.com/the-obvious-false-flag-that-is-navalnys-poisoning-deef1d023bdb
Regarding Johnny's claim that the use of Novichok is like a "signature", and regarding the US and other countries' production of Novichok:
tass.com/politics/1000583
newscientist.com/article/2164202-exclusive-other-countries-could-have-made-russian-nerve-agent/
medium.com/insurge-intelligence/former-opcw-official-no-conclusive-proof-of-russian-complicity-in-salisbury-attack-1ae3749ba38e
Professor of organic chemistry at Cornell university:
https://twitter.com/DavidBCollum/status/998613563680882694
https://twitter.com/DavidBCollum/status/978435092103254016
Also see the NYT article linked-to in a response to that second Twitter post. It's concerning the US taking-over and cleaning-up the USSR's Uzbekistan facility where the USSR's Novichok was developed and stored.
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@Noah-lj2sg >> "Russia is in a messed up state due to putin, it isn't democracy"
Yet Russians say they've never had as good living conditions as they do now. If you look at where Russia was after the fall of the USSR, and compare it to now, it is beyond night and day. Regarding democracy, Russia is one and is much more of one than the US is. Though, when people say "democracy", especially when they're from the US, they often don't actually mean democracy at all, but mean some ambiguous sentiments which they associate with their own country. Russia isn't the US, that's true. And the US isn't a democracy.
Democracy means 'rule by the will of the people'. In Russia, the head-of-state is elected by the popular vote, and that makes it a democracy. In the US, the head-of-state is elected by a group of representatives in the electoral college - which means that the popular vote doesn't elect the US' head-of-state, and therefore the US isn't a democracy.
In Russia, there were 8 presidential candidates in the previous presidential election. In the US, there were 2. There is no democracy where there is no choice. Once again, here, Russia is much more of a democracy than the US is.
In Russia, there are 5 federal political parties in their legislature. In the US, there is just 2 - and the 2 parties are basically two heads of the corporate party, so nothing much changes depending on which party is incumbent. Here, yet again, Russia shows much stronger signs of being a democracy than the US is.
No Western democracy has overall term limits for the head of government / state, and term limits are an anti-democratic feature which prevent the people's will for who will be the head of state from being enacted. Germany's Chancellor Merkle has been in her position for about as long as Putin has been Russia's president. Yet, people don't bring that up as an issue. If the Russian people keep wanting Putin to be their president, then it is democracy, the 'rule by the will of the people' for him to continue to be Russia's president.
In Russia, pollsters keep confirming that Putin continues to hold the significant popular support - and at a much higher approval rating than most any Western politician. That is again an example of 'rule by the will of the people'. In the US, the president doesn't normally have that much domestic support.
Russia's presidential elections are monitored and validated by the OSCE, which has not found Russia's elections to be fraudulent, but instead "well-administered". The OSCE has criticized Russia's elections for featuring a lack of "serious" competition - but that lack of serious competition isn't due to a lack of candidates to choose from, but due to Putin's strong popularity dwarfing the prospects of other candidates, and Russian media focusing on Putin because he is popular (similar to how CNN became the Trump-channel throughout Trump's term because it caused their ratings to soar - and their ratings have plummeted since Trump left office).
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@senyaiv I checked my profile, and I don't see what you mean by "everyone can see that by clicking the profile pic circle". Could you explain?
By the way, just a heads-up, since you mentioned my profile and I noticed some comments on it from a particular person: The accounts "White Wall", "William Sam", "Fi Bryar", "Fatty Hendo", and probably others, are all operated by the same person who pretends to be different people with them. They are extremely aggressive, impulsive, can be stalking, and difficult to explain things to. And they have no restraint or compunction against making lies of any size, big or small, even when you'd think it's impossible for them to not know that you know that they're lying. They don't accept correction and are unyielding in their initial insistence. I believe this is because they are on the spectrum. Alternatively, they might work for a troll farm.
This person has been extremely sensitive to any talk about Ukraine's large troll farm program and can spend an entire day, more than 10 hours straight, non-stop, saying the same inane or whitewashing comment about it. In general, they mentally block-out all information that doesn't tell them what they want to hear, no matter how inarguably and demonstrably factual it is. They will also pretend they didn't get answers they received to their questions just so that they can continue to badger someone with the already-answered question and pretend with themselves that they're "owning" someone for not getting an answer. It is as detached from reality and normal sanity as it sounds.
With each of their accounts, they show the same very poor English grammar and phrasing, and are sometimes completely unintelligible - especially when they become upset. Yet, even when they're at their very most incoherent, as in, posting fully unintelligible gibberish, they maintain an insistence that they're speaking perfect English. When they spend more time working out a post they can make it appear a bit more normal, though there's typically always some oddities in their writing style. Again, I believe they are on the spectrum and that their behaviour is a result of that.
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