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Skybird · 09-03-20, 09:14 AM

Last night I had an insane idea.

Navalny is not the first critic who falls victim to an assassination attempt in Russia. And this deed was committed not in Germany, but on Russian soil. It was Merkel's government then fighting hard for getting Navalny to Germany.

A year ago or so, another intimate enemy of the Russians was assassinated by Russian agents in the Berlin Tiergarten. There was some diplomatic rush and push, and that was it. It was an attack carried out inside Germany, in a park in the German capital.

The reactions to me do not really compare. Why was it so urgent for the Germans to get Navalny to Germany, right while it must have been known to them that this would mean to seat themselves in a most umcomfortable position between "punish the Russians!" and "continue Nord Stream 2!" ?

What if Merkel has done another of her complete and total U-turns she is famous for by now (after all she is mercielssly opporutnsitzic, that is the only principle she consistently has followed in her career) - and decided to use the case of Navalny as an excuse to prepare the shutting down of the Nord Stream 2 project, finally giving in to America's bullying? If so, she would need an excuse, no matter how fabricated, to save her face. It falls into the patterns of rhetoric cheats and tricks that just days ago she voiced her adament determination to see Nord Stream 2 completed - and then bringing Navalny into the formula, so that she could say afterwards: "I was fully determined to get Nord Stream 2 done and not reward Trump - but you see, the circumstances with the Russians changed due to them trying to kill another of their critics, he is being treated in germany and that puts us into a special responsibility, and so it was our moral esponsibility and we had no other choice but to cancel it: Russia forced us. Its a loss for us, but we sacrifice evertyhing to fulfill our moral obligation to punish the Russians." - While in reality, if this narration shows to become true, it may just be about appeasing the Americans.

It really stuns me how sharp the reaction over an assassination attempt in Russia is now, and how imo way too mild the reaction was back on that public murdering in Berlin back then. It just does not calculate smooth. I dont get it.

09-03-20, 09:14 AM	#158
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,790 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	Last night I had an insane idea. Navalny is not the first critic who falls victim to an assassination attempt in Russia. And this deed was committed not in Germany, but on Russian soil. It was Merkel's government then fighting hard for getting Navalny to Germany. A year ago or so, another intimate enemy of the Russians was assassinated by Russian agents in the Berlin Tiergarten. There was some diplomatic rush and push, and that was it. It was an attack carried out inside Germany, in a park in the German capital. The reactions to me do not really compare. Why was it so urgent for the Germans to get Navalny to Germany, right while it must have been known to them that this would mean to seat themselves in a most umcomfortable position between "punish the Russians!" and "continue Nord Stream 2!" ? What if Merkel has done another of her complete and total U-turns she is famous for by now (after all she is mercielssly opporutnsitzic, that is the only principle she consistently has followed in her career) - and decided to use the case of Navalny as an excuse to prepare the shutting down of the Nord Stream 2 project, finally giving in to America's bullying? If so, she would need an excuse, no matter how fabricated, to save her face. It falls into the patterns of rhetoric cheats and tricks that just days ago she voiced her adament determination to see Nord Stream 2 completed - and then bringing Navalny into the formula, so that she could say afterwards: "I was fully determined to get Nord Stream 2 done and not reward Trump - but you see, the circumstances with the Russians changed due to them trying to kill another of their critics, he is being treated in germany and that puts us into a special responsibility, and so it was our moral esponsibility and we had no other choice but to cancel it: Russia forced us. Its a loss for us, but we sacrifice evertyhing to fulfill our moral obligation to punish the Russians." - While in reality, if this narration shows to become true, it may just be about appeasing the Americans. It really stuns me how sharp the reaction over an assassination attempt in Russia is now, and how imo way too mild the reaction was back on that public murdering in Berlin back then. It just does not calculate smooth. I dont get it. __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.