Things You Won't Read About Navalny in the Mainstream Press

Alexei Navalny Died in an Artic Penal Colony on Friday

On Friday 16 February, it was announced that Alexei Navalny had died in a Siberian prison after going for a walk and feeling unwell. Apparently, paramedics rushed to the scene and tried to revive him for 30 minutes before confirming his death. Cause of death is still unknown although it has been reported that his body was noticeably bruised. Navalany’s mother has been told she must wait 14 days whilst the authorities conduct a chemical examination.

Within hours of his death, Western leaders supposedly knew exactly what had been done and by whom. Putin of course. Even though the Americans still can’t work out what happened to Epstein in an American prison, Biden knew exactly what had happened in the middle of Siberia. “Make no mistake, Putin is responsible for Navalny’s death”, he declared.

Ursula von der Leyen and Kamal Harris were among other Western leaders reading from the same ‘Putin did it’ script.

It very much followed the Nordstream 2 pipe line explosion script. Within minutes of it happening and with absolutely no evidence, it was Putin who did it. Almost a year and a half later, we are still none the wiser, which indicates that it wasn’t Putin. If it was then the evidence would be displayed on the front page of every newspaper for days. The silence is deafening and asking cui bono? suggests that the Americans did it, as they have massively profited both from a continuing war and from sales of LNG.

Although Putin hatred is probably greater than Trump hatred at the moment, some Democrats couldn’t help blame Trump for Navalny’s death. Ted Lieu on MSNBC asserted that “We had former president Donald Trump essentially say that Russia should attack NATO countries…They thought, “Hey, we now have a green light to do all sorts of crazy stuff”.” Nikki Haley said Trump must answer for his death.

Trump reflected on Navalny’s death by posting “The sudden death of Alexei Navalny has made me more and more aware of what is happening in our country”. Cryptic!

Some Eastern European countries weren’t as convinced as everyone else as to whether Putin was the culprit or not. According to reports, Vice Speaker of the Slovak Parliament, Luboš Blaha said “It’s sad, of course, that the man died, but it’s strange that the whole West is now cheerfully promoting conspiracy theories here, and his death has not even been investigated. Putin definitely didn’t need his death, Navalny would have had to spend the next decades in prison and he didn’t threaten anyone politically. According to officials, the cause of his death was a blood clot. We don’t know anything else, the case is being investigated, everything else is conspiracies”.

And he’s right. It is sad that Navalny died, he was a husband, son and a father but the immediate shrieking that Putin did it, hints at something being up. What benefit does Putin get from taking out a man who he had neutralised and had largely been forgotten about? He didn’t constitute a real threat to Putin’s leadership in the middle of Siberia. Of course, Putin is renowned for playing 4D chess, so we can never dismiss that he ordered Navalny’s death, but what the Western media fails to do is explore other options.