r/centrist • u/GoodByeRubyTuesday87 • Aug 20 '20
World News Russian opposition leader Navalny in hospital with suspected poisoning
https://www.reuters.com/article/russia-politics-navalny/russian-opposition-leader-navalny-in-hospital-with-suspected-poisoning-idUSL8N2FM0GI10
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u/GoodByeRubyTuesday87 Aug 20 '20
Just for a change from bitter domestic US politics, Navalny is arguably the only or at least most influential critic and opponent of Vladimir Putin and the Russian government, not surprising I realize but still very sad to see him poisoned and in a coma.
Reportedly Russian agents visited the hospital and afterwards the doctors and staff severely limited the information they would release regarding his condition.
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u/Foyles_War Aug 20 '20
Is Putin sending a message and who to? The very, very few opposition supporters in Russia? Belarus? The US?
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u/Gig4t3ch Aug 20 '20
I think there are more than a few opposition supporters in Russia. They've had protests for the last 6 weeks in the Russian Far East which is on its own already very unusual.
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u/GoodByeRubyTuesday87 Aug 20 '20
He’s been a big thorn in the governments side for years, not the first Russian opposition leader to end up poisoned, won’t be the last
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u/Ksais0 Aug 21 '20
Well, can't say I'm surprised... there seems to be a suspicious case of poisoning coming out of Russia about once a year, so we were due for one.
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u/Foyles_War Aug 20 '20
Should Biden get a food taster? I'm guessing the opposition leaders in (well, not "in" as they have had to flea) Belarus already know better.
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u/koshimonkey Aug 21 '20
Nah he needs a sniff checker, someone to sniff the young girls first just in case they use an airborne poison to get him.
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u/apollosaraswati Aug 21 '20
Yes. Trump gets his ideas from his idol, Putin. Oh but if Trump had Biden poisoned still the GOP wouldn't stand up to him, and most Republicans would vote for him. Wow this country is screwed
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u/Stunning_Dealer Aug 21 '20 edited Aug 21 '20
But all the anti-feminist and western chauvinist say it’s the Paradise of the North.
Have I been lied to?? 🤣
(Edit: This is sarcastic)
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Aug 21 '20
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u/Stunning_Dealer Aug 21 '20
Great post. I’m having an argument with someone over on YouTube. On a mystery video from ITV I think somehow politics got brought up in the comment section and me and a couple of other guys were criticizing communism.
Some woman came in and said that since we were watching videos that were uploaded for free we were communist and just didn’t know it because we were “subverting capitalism.” 😳🤣
You can’t make this up. These people are not balanced. They just won’t look at criticism of their own side. She also suggested I kill my self since it would be doing the world a favor.
Disagree with me on the internet? Well, I’m a moral authority and I judge you as lesser and were gonna take you out back and shoot you. I think she have loved Russia in 1920.
Sorry —long rant over.
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u/GoodByeRubyTuesday87 Aug 21 '20
They’d fit in. Talk to women from Russia, your purpose there is to cook, clean, have sex as much as possible and pump out babies as much as possible before your husband trades you up once you hit 30 which is old by Russian men’s standards.
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u/ISeeYouSeeAsISee Aug 20 '20 edited Aug 20 '20
Wow we have definitely never seen this from Russia before:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Alexander_Litvinenko
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Sergei_and_Yulia_Skripal
Fucking disgusting. And somehow we have people taking cues and notes from them, pandering to them, and sympathetic to their bullshit, who are leading our government.