Navalny, someone has to ask questions
Not in the western media when you have already been handed the answers
With most Americans, the legacy media is watched less and less. Bezos is selling his money losing blog, if only because it is a money losing blog or because less people read it every day.
The Times seems to be surviving, but the rest decline more and more.
No matter the health of the business model, the behavior does not change, and the views of the scriveners are reliably uniform. It is the same with broadcast and cable, from Fox to NPR.
So, it was no surprise when the report of the death of Alexei Navalny hit the news and the western media moved as one to cover the story of how the Hitler du jour, Vladimir Putin was, without trial, condemned in the press as the obvious villain.
For all one knows it is true, but that does not mean there is not a journalistic obligation to dig, unless, of course, one is only a stenographer
Thus, it is not in the least a tad suspicious that Mr. Navalny died just after the Russian president had an interview seen by a vast audience?
The question becomes, qui bono?
But, you say, he died in Russian government custody, how could that happen? Well, might one ask, was he Epsteined?
The words of the Vice Speaker of the Slovak Parliament Ľuboš Blaha concerning Navalny's death are particularly well thought out:
“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.
I will not pretend that I will cry all night because of Navalny now - thousands of children are dying in Gaza and all the media spit on them, they will now talk on air for a week only about this one American agent.
They better look at what the British and Americans are doing to Julian Assange, who is in custody on the verge of death in this glorious West, which prides itself on freedom of speech and protection of journalists. Let them remember how they remained silent when the American journalist Gonzalo Lira, who criticized Zelensky, recently died in Ukrainian custody.”
Again, what we know is speculation. Maybe Putin went to the jail and strangled the man personally? Why would a man considered so calculating do something that would work so against his interests?
Meanwhile, the incuriosity of the media regarding Lira and Assange mocks the term “free press.”
I believe there were rumblings of a blow to the chest, that when delivered in very cold temperatures can result in sudden death. Who benefitted indeed? Coming within a month of elections, the death of Navalny certainly seemed timed to try to disrupt Putin’s landslide victory. Putin certainly didn’t want that kind of “bad” press. It seems, much like the NordStream bombing, we will never know. So why not speculate? Ukrainian leaders had no love for Navalny. Who better to take him out? And probably at the behest of US operatives. Ukraine was consumed with securing more weapons from the US at the time as well…and as we know, Navalny’s death was big news in the US….an occasion for non-stop Putin-bashing for days and a means of pressuring the US House of Representatives. Arguably, a Ukrainian-linked assassin would have both motive and opportunity to bribe his way into a Russian prison and murder Navalny. On the other hand, maybe Navalny died of natural causes as reported in the Russian press.