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Germany Threatens Sanctions Against Russia Over Navalny Poisoning

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Germany Threatens Sanctions Against Russia Over Navalny Poisoning

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9/6/20
Germany, the current head of the European Union, will discuss possible sanctions against Russia over the poisoning of Alexei Navalny if the Kremlin does not provide an explanation soon, its foreign minister said Sunday. Russian opposition leader and anti-corruption campaigner Navalny fell ill on a flight last month and was treated in a Siberian hospital before being evacuated to Berlin. Germany said last week there was "unequivocal evidence" that President Vladimir Putin's top foe had been poisoned using Soviet-era nerve agent Novichok. "We have high expectations of the Russian government to solve this serious crime," Heiko Maas told German daily Bild. "If the government has nothing to do with the attack, then it is in its own interest to back this up with facts." If Russia does not help clarify what happened "in the coming days", Germany will be compelled to "discuss a response with our allies," Maas said.

The crime against Navalny was a violation of the international Chemical Weapons Convention and there must be an appropriate response, he said. "When we think about sanctions, they should be as targeted as possible." Western leaders and many Russians have expressed horror at what Navalny's allies say is the first known use of chemical weapons against a high-profile opposition leader on Russian soil. Maas said there were "several indications" that Russia was behind the poisoning, in the strongest accusations yet from Germany. "The deadly substance with which Navalny was poisoned has in the past been found in the hands of Russian authorities. "Only a small number of people have access to Novichok and this poison was used by Russian secret services in the attack against former agent Sergei Skripal," he said, referring to a 2018 attack on the former double agent and his daughter in the English city of Salisbury. "I hope... that the Russians do not force us to change our position on Nord Stream," Maas said, adding that the consequences of any potential cancellation of the project would also need to be weighed, and that the debate on sanctions should not be "reduced" to one point.

Putin did this intentionally and purposefully used Novichok to let everyone know that he was behind it. Now he refuses to cooperate. There must be a price to pay.

Stop the Nord Stream-2 project right where it is.

Related: Navalny Has Been Poisoned. Where Are the People on the Streets?
 
Yes. Where is your evidence that Russia is innocent?
Really? Have you ever heard of the presumption of innocence?
By the way, so many messages from you and all on the same topics. Obviously, you get paid based on the number of new topics, but do your curators know that these are not some new stories, and you just deceive them, being lazy?
 
Germany Threatens Sanctions Against Russia Over Navalny Poisoning

I miss the days when we were the free world leader.

Can we ever be again post Trump?

Doubtful we will ever be trusted again.
 
Really? Have you ever heard of the presumption of innocence?

With the hundreds of Russian journalists and political activists murdered by the Putin regime?

A "presumption of innocence"?

:lamo
 
I miss the days when we were the free world leader.

Can we ever be again post Trump?

Doubtful we will ever be trusted again.

It will take time to mend what Trump has broken. At least the next two presidential election cycles.
 
I miss the days when we were the free world leader.

Can we ever be again post Trump?

Doubtful we will ever be trusted again.

Why in the world did you Like Post #4?
 
It will take time to mend what Trump has broken. At least the next two presidential election cycles.

agree, but that we will regain out esteemed position in the world is a fantasy

things can never go back, it's teh nature of life

so sad for us proud Americans
 
agree, but that we will regain out esteemed position in the world is a fantasy

things can never go back, it's teh nature of life

so sad for us proud Americans

We've had bad presidents before and managed to right the ship of state.

PS. You should not feed the Russian trolls that inhabit infest this forum.
 
We've had bad presidents before and managed to right the ship of state.
.

Nothing like this, not even close.

Obviously you mean Bush but the comparison is a false equivalence.
 
With the hundreds of Russian journalists and political activists murdered by the Putin regime?
Sad thing about american population, that they read crap like you write and because of their life long Fake news atmosphere, they will not find your statement vile and deceitful at all... The "Clinton cemetery" only, much bigger, than all the journalists who died in Russia.
 
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If Russia doesn't want to be held accountable for poisoning people, they might consider not poisoning people.
 
If Russi doesn't want to be held accountable for poisoning people, they might consider not poisoning people.
How do you like that: Helix, If you don't want to be called pedofile, don't be the one! Please, stop molesting little children!
 
How do you like that: Helix, If you don't want to be called pedofile, don't be the one! Please, stop molesting little children!

I'm not a pedophile, and I don't poison people, either.
 
Really? Have you ever heard of the presumption of innocence?
By the way, so many messages from you and all on the same topics. Obviously, you get paid based on the number of new topics, but do your curators know that these are not some new stories, and you just deceive them, being lazy?

Presumption of innocence only applies in a courtroom. The rest of us are entitled to say what we think on any subject.
 
Presumption of innocence only applies in a courtroom. The rest of us are entitled to say what we think on any subject.

If it were just talk, but sanctions are based on this talk, and sanctions are a loss of money. So someone's lying talk, leads to another someone losing money. And this is not just talk. Money talks and bull **** walks. Are you willing to pay for the lies you're spreading out? I don't think so.
 
If it were just talk, but sanctions are based on this talk, and sanctions are a loss of money. So someone's lying talk, leads to another someone losing money. And this is not just talk. Money talks and bull **** walks. Are you willing to pay for the lies you're spreading out? I don't think so.

Don't like sanctions, then don't poison an activist known all over the world.
 
If it were just talk, but sanctions are based on this talk, and sanctions are a loss of money. So someone's lying talk, leads to another someone losing money. And this is not just talk. Money talks and bull **** walks. Are you willing to pay for the lies you're spreading out? I don't think so.

What in hell are you talking about?
 

Lemme guess, someone just told that guy about Trump on the steps of a church waving a Bible with riots to the left of him and pandemics to the right.
 
German doctors actually found that it was a “cholinesterase inhibitor”, which is also used in numerous pesticides. By connecting with the neurotransmitter molecules, cholinesterase inhibitors either temporarily or permanently inhibit the ability of the acetylcholinesterase to do their job, causing an overload of acetylcholine. It is widely assumed that Navalny must have ingested the poison from a cup of tea that he drank at a Siberian airport but this assumption may be incorrect. Cholinesterase inhibitors cannot be consumed orally. Navalny absorbed the poison through his skin from a contaminated object. We can rule out a spray because no other passengers were affected.

 
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The British foreign office demanded an explanation from Moscow, where the German doctors got the British equivalent of Novichok.
 
German doctors actually found that it was a “cholinesterase inhibitor”, which is also used in numerous pesticides. By connecting with the neurotransmitter molecules, cholinesterase inhibitors either temporarily or permanently inhibit the ability of the acetylcholinesterase to do their job, causing an overload of acetylcholine. It is widely assumed that Navalny must have ingested the poison from a cup of tea that he drank at a Siberian airport but this assumption may be incorrect. Cholinesterase inhibitors cannot be consumed orally. Navalny absorbed the poison through his skin from a contaminated object. We can rule out a spray because no other passengers were affected.



:rofl

That's it! Navalny sprayed himself with Roundup pesticide in Tomsk, Russia.
 
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