Translated and subtitled by Leo.
The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) itself unwittingly denied the version of Navalny’s poisoning. It’s hard to make a different conclusion to the OPCW report presented this week. In the document, it is said that the organization, with the request of Germany, formed a technical commission to check the information about the poisoning of the Russian citizen even from August 20th. Basically from the moment that the blogger started ‘feeling sick’ on board the plane, flying from Omsk to Moscow.
The reason for this malaise was not and couldn’t be understood by anyone. As the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova commented, in order to appeal to the OPCW, Germany had to have on-hand some primary data about the poisoning.
Maria Zakharova: “It means that the whole story was being prepared ahead of time. If by August 20, in that moment when the doctors didn’t get a chance to start the primary analysis, and make at least some conclusions, the OPCW already answered to Germany’s request. And they sent their experts on chemical weapons poisoning. It’s a falsification.”
Emergency help for Navalny after the unexpected plane landing in Omsk was done by ambulance paramedics from a local hospital. They were the first to do research on the status of his organs with all possible poison substances, including synthetic ones. And they received a negative result.
Already two days later, the blogger landed in Berlin from a special flight for his further treatment. Germany and other Western countries accused Russia of poisoning. However, the data from the analysis on the basis of which this conclusion was made, overlooking the numerous official inquiries made by Moscow, neither Berlin nor the OPCW provided them with it. And now without any analysis, it has emerged that the version of using a battle-poison substance against Navalny, was knitted by white threads.
It’s ‘Highly Likely’ the Germans with the US and UK have been caught red-handed.
This report must give Navalny the shakes. His own paymaster was trying to sacrifice him because they knew his political movement was dead in the womb.
Now he dwells in prison for two-and-a-half years thinking that the US will finish him off, martyr him in order to hang responsibility on Putin.
The incompetents at OPCW and Germany bungled the date of their phony claim that Russia was the black hand in the poison caper.
Well, OPCW has been had by the phony Brit/White Helmet chemical weapons accusations for years in Syria.
Just another international organization worthy of Monty Python mockery.
Imagine how much worse it could get if Annegret remains as German defence minister in a coalition with the Democrats’ puppet German Green Party openly romancing with Ukronazis…
I hope the RF prison service is MI6-proof. Not that there’s any value at all to the Navalny puppet’s life. It’s just so much hassle to deal with the AngloZionist emo drama after.
Better for Russia to exile the SOB to the West than risk having him assassinated in prison, which the CIA or the MI6 is quite capable of carrying out and then calling him a martyr. A live Navalny is much less useful than a dead Navalny to the West but the fool is too stupid to realise this. Putin should exile him to the US or the UK for “humanitarian” reasons and then carp on the Yanks and Brits for continuing to persecute Julian Assange.
Then, they will poison him in the West and still blame Russia, like they did with the Skripals.
So Navalny is better off in a Russian jail for his own protection :-) ?
@Harry_Red
Yes, that’s actually the case. Imagine trying to martyr Navalny while he is locked up courtesy of the Russian penal system. Sure, the MSM could try to go for another media hoax but this becomes utterly untenable, not least due to all the other equally ridiculous nonsense about Navalny which the MSM still keep as their ”Party Line” (Navalny massively popular; the ”regime” scared stiff by the ”mass movement”, Putin has already failed N times over trying to assassinate the specimen, etc.). So, back again to square one: How to assassinate Navalny for real while he is locked up courtesy of the Russian penal system?
The problem here is that while Navalny has zero authority back home (he is a rightfully despised fool), there isn’t any mood in Russia for lynching him either. That could otherwise have made his killing a possibly tempting solution from the perspective of social cohesion and the legitimacy of Russian State power. Of course, our dear Lügenpresse would have little problem in turning an outburst of genuine popular fury into ”Putin’s Black Hundreds” or some such nonsense. But this scenario is evidently not materialising. Ergo: It would have to be Western Intel trying to kill a locked up Navalny, and this is ruled out precisely because their intentions are far too well known and Russia’s social and political cohesion is too resilient.
Last but not least: Our dear Analny Navalny himself just doesn’t have what it takes to die for a cause, as became evident with his farcical ”hunger strike”. Life is too dear for this kind of ”freedom fighter” as opposed to Julian Assange.
I dunno. Uncle Sam’s promises of money still seems to attract numerous traitors against their own country around the world. Must say I am surprised at the number of Cuban turncoats that Washington’s intel agencies are still able to recruit after 60+ years of freedom from American puppet rule of the island by organised crime. Of course, what they are “protesting” are merely the effects of Washington’s six-decade long economic siege of the country, whether they realise it or not. The fools still believe that they will become influential members of a new American junta ruling the place if this latest color revolution succeeds. Every Marielito in Miami maintains that silly dream because American pols keep feeding it to them.
How often around the world that same trick is used! Maybe such people should look around at the fate of other countries that have succumbed to Washington’s fomented coups, but they never do. The only thing that Washington’s incessant anti-Russian propaganda has accomplished, especially in Florida, has been the flood of migrants from throughout the Caribbean who have replaced a large percentage of the American ethnic groups that had dominated the state before the “communist” scare began in the 1950’s. South Florida has become de-facto de-Americanized, similar to Southern California’s fate. This may seem off-topic but the CIA and their puppet masters have sweeping changes in mind on many fronts for who lives where in the future world. The most obscure backwaters in Africa and central Asia are on their hit list, not because they are essential or need American salvation, but simply because they are there to be added to the global empire. They think that Navalny is going to pave the way for take-over of Siberia and all its resources.
Reminds me of the Boris Nemtsov shooting, Another has been Liberal politician that the CIA is not getting much bang for their buck. Worth more as a dead “martyr” than a live opposition figure. USA “60 minutes” built Navalny up as the main opposition figure, even though he could not even break the 5% threshold, They don’t even bother with good tradecraft these days, just let the MSM bullhorn propagandize the masses. Check out The Grayzone’s analysis of the OPCWs lies about the false flag at Douma, Syria a few years back. OPCW certainly has been compromised by Western Intel
To John Neil Spangler
John, you have just seen the tip of the iceberg. There is so much going on under the surface, you cannot even imagine.
Yes. The OPCW has been penetrated by American and Western spooks. The OPCW’s role in trying to manufacture a pretext for the bombing of Syria in 2018 based on Syrian “Chemical Weapons of Mass Destruction” is criminal.
This is just like the America-led subversion of the UN weapons inspection organization (UNSCOM) and its promotion of America’s lies about Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction.
Now, OPCW is caught promoting deceptions about Russian Weapons of Mass Destruction in the supposed poisoning of Alexey Navalny.
Pressed for answers on Syria cover-up, OPCW chief offers new lies and excuses
https://thegrayzone.com/2021/07/02/pressed-for-answers-on-syria-cover-up-opcw-chief-offers-new-lies-and-excuses/
@ Anonymous “This is just like the America-led subversion of the UN weapons inspection organization (UNSCOM)”
As I recall, Washington did not subvert UNSCOM, although Karl Bildt was not as aggressive as we could have hoped for, in clearly stating they had found nothing. Scott Ritter was the US official for UNSCOM. He writes very good articles at RT.com, and he is the best source on American subversion of UNSCOM, or the lack thereof. It’s crucial to distinguish the vicious lying operation that is OPCW today, from UNSCOM.
Every morning I read the Google News headlines. I do that to try to get a feel on what “narrative lines” are being pushed to the public.
It is a dangerous thing to do.
If you are not careful, there is a real risk that you might end up believing the some of the headlines have a basis in fact.
This is a very good comment M from J, the dividing line of self-awareness filtering systems get’s blurred.
This happens through the admixture of cleverly disguised lies, blatant lies, areas of truth that may be presented as fact, maybe only, and if so, simply to create a scaffolding for the lies to take on form and inhabit, half truths that do the same, only they veer towards a more deadly lie mechanism. Add to this deception, or subterfuge, and finally, the voice of the presenter if it is live, especially the BBC reporters, programme leaders etc, and their false, placation efforts to “create” plausibility, and lastly, language use, how words and which words are used.
There could be more areas, I’m just writing and thinking as I go, but that’s already a fair amount of thought sense, word sense and more to filter and separate what is going on, when reading or listening to news.
Perhaps another thing is the comfort addiction, turning to something felt or hoped as a pillar, or column, through ack of knowledge and independent thinking, of interest for the same, that is dormant or buried through fear. Hardly surprising in a way, but people need to wake up, t’s a inner thing, an inner column of the self, no one can do it for them.
Russia seems to spend a lot of time debunking ZATO nonsense/propaganda. Why bother?
Those who make up this BS (Scumbags like Bellingcat ) are doing so for mass idiot consumption in order to justify xyz action.
Those in the know, who matter, who make decisions, know it’s BS.
All Russia have to do is say or Stamp Any Accusation in BLOOD RED as FAKE NEWS.
When Trumplethinskin said Fake News those who chose to believe him did so and those who chose not to, didn’t.
That less than 25% of people trust MSM speaks volumes.
The Great Unwashed are too busy Twattering or on TikTok to be bothered with factual longwinded rebuttals of accusations and are way more inclined to accept any accusation stamped Fake News as exactly that.
Keep It Simple is how Trumplethinskin won hearts & Minds, not LOGIC. ‘Drain The Swamp’ and ‘Lock Her Up’ were very effective JINGLES, even though Trumplethinskin was adding even more Neocons & Goldmanites to his Administration/The Swamp.
I’m not sure if Putin knows he’s even won the Information War, Hearts & Minds. It’s a Victory that will obviously never be published on the front of The Economist or Other Rag, or stated on The BBC, where your very job/existence depends on toeing ZATO’s narrative, however, as stated earlier less than 25% trust MSM. Doesn’t mean 75% trust Russia, I’d guess here in England 25% will trust Putin over bloated Boris (25%) & 50% couldn’t care less as long as their iphone or Samsung is fully charged. In Scotland that figure would rise to 40%- 10% in Putin’s favour, again with 50% braindead/ disinterested.
To conclude – When MSM announce/publish Assad used chemical weapons, you say Fake News it was George Clooney and The White Helmets or 2 Russian suspects were spotted in the vicinity of Salisbury Bio laboratory, UK, where the Brits&US manufacture novichok, but decided to bring their own deadlier concoction, got drunk and left it on the park bench where a British Army Medic found the Skripals in a hallucinatory state, you say, Fake News.
“Russia seems to spend a lot of time debunking ZATO nonsense/propaganda. Why bother?”
I fully agree. The best way to handle this is by bringing up the Fascism in the West. The unnecessary lockdowns, masking mandates, restaurant rules etc. in places like Australia, NZ and Ireland – stooges of the Empire.
Attack them for staging MH-17, gassing in Ghouta, putsching Kiev and much else.
Put along the Ukrainian border TV antenna to broadcast the Ukrainian news with Ukrainian commentators from different sections – Ukrainian-speaking, Russian-speaking, Orthodox and so on. Break the media monopoly of the Jews – Zelensky, Poroshenko etc.
And now without any analysis, it has emerged that the version of using a battle-poison substance against Navalny, was knitted by white threads.
Knitted by knuckle-heads, more like. Only the dullest of the dullards would believe the yarn (I presume Zakharova meant ‘yarn’ by ‘knitted by white threads’) about Navalny’s alleged poisoning.
Talking of which, what’s with the Empire’s obsession with murder of its friends by poisoning, one wonders? Flavour of the month? Or reversible outcomes unlike messy motor accidents, head shots, drownings, electrocutions, falls from tall buildings or airplane malfunctions? Every thinking person knows it’s the latter — from Syria, the Skripals, right through to the Novichok survivor, ‘superman’ Navalny.
One thing’s for sure though: the Empire has managed to severely damage the idea of the UN and multilateralism — which RF, PRC, et al are trying to defend — by thoroughly subverting the integrity of once-trusted multilateral institutions. The idea is, of course, to make the world embrace the ‘rule-based order’ conceived by the Empire. Hopefully the idea will be stillborn.
My guess is that “knitted by white threads” is the english equivalent of “made up from whole cloth”. Can a native Russian speaker educate us? Thanks!
Maybe pull the wool over ones eyes?
If it is knitted with white threads, then it is obvious (visible) to everybody that it (the story) has been knitted together. Unless the clothes are white, of course.
Sewn with white threads is something immediately and obviously noticeable as fake. It refers to something awkwardly (badly) hidden. In fact, there is a similar expression in French “coudre avec du fil blanc”. It’s the tailor’s technique to mark the cloth with a white or blue thread before cutting it to make it more visible.
what’s even more mind boggling is the “extradition” of Navalny under flimsy circumstances. and RF allowed it. did he have a valid visa to EU? was it stamped out of RF as due process requires?
try this anywhere else and they’ll shoot your a** down. so, why did RF even let it go through? did they read this game surreptitiously?
But according to ever trustworthy Western MSM, Navalny was able to get the heinous act of poisoning confirmed by a ”disgruntled FSB official” he talked to over the phone. Navalny’s face was paralyzed with horror and anguish as the blunt confession was made.
Oh, and while we’re at it — let’s not forget about ”Putin’s palace” a mere stone’s throw away from illegally-annexed-Crimea. Navalny is fighting corruption right there in the belly of the beast. How many poisonings will he possibly survive before The Kremlin eventually succeeds?
I have to say,, well done Maria, and MFS, Russia, in exposing this complete fraud!
But i have to ask, why the hell bother responding to this garbage over and over and over agaiin. why waste your time? You must believe that some ones, some wheres, actually believe this garbage and it is important to disclose and expose how false it really is.
Do the Bellingcats, the MI6, Mossad, the cia, i.e. the Mockingbirds, et al actually have that much influence and credibility? Do they actually matter in the broad scheme of things?
it probably comes down to the fact, yes fact, that there is no truth, no facts that really exist today, So where are we, Alice in wonderland does not even come close.
The first rule must be to disregard anything, say again, anything, that comes from any govt and its officials, un- named or other wise , msm, “reliable” sources et al.
The second rule must be to remember and abide by the first rule.
The problem are news app and facebook. Most people in the west seem to get
their information from these prefiltered “sources”.
I once hat a news app on my phone and i instantly felt like someone is
pushing news on me while holding off others and kicked it off my phone
again.
But i have seen many who just go to facebook to get their news.
Thats the same like watching government controled news channels.
Just that it’s not the government but other interest groups.
If china ever wants to win in a information war (i feel russia is far to nice to even try)
the first step would be to take down facebook and many “news” apps so that
some people might start looking up news themselves and possibly get the
chance to find something different then their used to.
Until then it’s pointless. Just look at the georgia war.
EU and NATO continue to mention at any given point that russia started it
and attacked innocent georgia, despite an EU-investigation at one point
giving the conclusion that it was georgia who fired the first shots.
They came to this conclusion said it once and then continued with the
russia aggression narative.
And when someones says that any lie of the west is a lie they just pile on
their old lies as “evidence” that rusia is allways agressiv to shut any other
opinion up…
“Yey sure all propaganda you putin troll – georgia agression, crimea war, nemzov,
navalny, novichoc, etc all lies and the earth is flat haha” bye ridicule they make sure
the non informed get the message to not believe anything you say …
My father once told me the truth will come out and win about the yugoslav war.
Sure the lies are written in most history books in the world allready and the rest
does not bother. Hell even russia used the srebrenica narative a couple weeks ago
to say that they would not let something like that happen in east ukraine.
The yugoslav war ist still even bye many uninformed left (true left not that blm/ antifa/ genderfreaks)
vieved as the one “right” thing nato did.
To defeat the west you must shut down the propaganda instruments who are constantly
feeding their version to the english, french and german speaking world.
greetings
kotromanic
Take OPCW (Odorous Propaganda Collective West) to ICC … I’m sure the organisation’s whistleblowers would love to testify against the OPCW leadership.
TEP.
I doubt the ICC has any cleaner hands than OPCW. All the UN has been corrupt since the 1970’s, when it was bankrupt because the world’s nations didn’t pay their dues. Uncle Sam stepped in to pay its bills and take over the organization. Jeffrey Feltman runs the UN. Former US Ambassador to Lebanon while the fraud of the international tribunal to determine who bombed Harriri Sr. went on, and four Lebanese army generals spent years in prison on false charges. Feltman is not a Jew, but his allegiance is to the tribe.
”Germany and other Western countries accused Russia of poisoning /Navalny/.”
Can’t entirely be ruled out. I mean Russia, after all, is the country where this inebriated, stoned ”regime critic” (genuine Nazi credentials at least) gets his booze, pills, and syringes. Sure, he is a Western silly plaything, but his ”medication” could well be funded by Russians primarily but hardly by The Kremlin.
By the way, I’ve always been wondering slightly about Angela Merkel’s real attitude — never shown in public, of course — towards Vladimir Putin and Alexei Navalny. The first one is a real man with appreciable intelligence, competence, honesty, dedication, decency, and politeness. Speaks German fluently just as Angela Merkel speaks Russian, and keep in mind aldo that Angela Merkel is an educated physicist. Alexei Navalny, by contrast, is a drug-addicted nobody with brown flavours and ditto odours to show for him. Well, the latter is the one who Merkel is supposed to deeply care for whereas the former is somebody she should loathe with a passion. Interesting psychological conflict indeed.
The Mighty Wurlitzer (Zionist MSM) will continue to blather on about how Russia poisoned Navalny, just like they continue to promote the official narrative of 9/11. No thinking person believes them anymore, just like no thinking person would go to war for the sake of Israel, but the USA will do it, again and again. Our wars never ever make sense. Remember the fable of the frog and the scorpion…
A scorpion wants to cross a river but cannot swim, so it asks a frog to carry it across. The frog hesitates, afraid that the scorpion might sting it, but the scorpion argues that if it did that, they would both drown. The frog considers this argument sensible and agrees to transport the scorpion. The frog lets the scorpion climb on its back and begins to swim. Midway across the river, the scorpion stings the frog anyway, dooming them both. The dying frog asks the scorpion why it stung despite knowing the consequence, to which the scorpion replies: “I couldn’t help it. It’s in my nature.”
Navalny was flown to German on August 22 and requests for his transport to Germany would have been made in advance. Given the vague wording, ‘formed a technical commission’, one could claim that means that Germany was merely seeking OPCW resources for when they would be able to provide actual forensic evidence.
Maybe this is decisive but the actual wording here allows for wriggle room.
I believe what is decisive here is that the request was made to the OPCW while Navalny was still groaning theatrically on the airplane. There was yet no reason to suspect he had been poisoned and he had not even been examined by a medical professional at that point. Kinda like how the media in the West was reporting that Belarus had forced an airliner down to arrest that Nazi kid even before he had been arrested. The actors in the farce were speaking their lines out of order. Such screw-ups make it obvious that they are working with a script, though one they have not practiced enough yet.
https://www.opcw.org/sites/default/files/documents/2020/10/s-1906-2020%28e%29.pdf
This document mentions a complete different timeline.
Indeed. And here’s the German Foreign Ministry’s explanation (Tass):
‘Time discrepancies in the draft report of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in the part related to the alleged poisoning of blogger Alexey Navalny were caused by a mistake in the date, that was corrected in the second version, German Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Rainer Breul said at a briefing on Wednesday.
“In the first draft there was, indeed, a mistake in the date, as it referred to August 20 as the date of Germany’s request instead of the correct September 4.…” ‘
If you believe that, I know a very nice Nigerian prince and we’d like invite you to invest in a Nigerian gold mine…
For some light relief, Arabi Souri has published an article relating to the release of a video taken by Hezb Allah during their whopping of the IDF in 2006. The video shows a Hezb platoon grabbing a couple of IDF goons from inside Israel and taking them over the border into Lebanon.
https://syrianews.cc/special-footage-of-the-july-2006-hezb-allah-operation-capturing-israeli-idf-terrorists/
The article links to YouTub and BitChute copies of the video. Needless to say, the one on YouTube was quickly removed for violating YouTube’s standards.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/atvg2FklowPa/
Dances With Bears has several good articles on this. Navalny is manic-depressive, and on benzos. When he got drunk and messed with his meds, it produced symptoms similar to brain nerve poisoning. Benzos are nasty sh*t. It would be useful to have someone explore this angle of the story further.
It was an hilarious sequence of events; being feted like a rock star by Germany’s horrible hog, to his very-public drug-withdrawal meltdown in Russian custody..
A John Helmer ‘Dances with Bears’ article listed his self-medication routine, and the guy was a walking pharmacy..
The main thing is that he & his organization of grifters are permanently out of business in Russia, and already forgotten by the people there..
Navalny’s foreign-sponsored adventures were a wake-up call for Mr Putin to clamp down on many NGOs and domestic rabble-rousers..
P.S. The billboard was painted-over shortly after being put up..
What about the recorded phonecall from December? In NYT-speak: “Mr. Navalny’s video of a purported 49-minute call with his own would-be assassin inside one of Russia’s most secretive and powerful intelligence agencies jolted the Russian internet, drawing more than seven million views on YouTube within hours.” Navalny doesn’t have 7 million followers. Did the Russian viewers believe the phonecall or not? Perhaps with many concluding “Navalny is a clever rat; deserves to die.” Do the commenters here have an answer to the purported phonecall with Konstantin Kudryavtsev?
@dcouzin
I saw the nonsense in a ”documentary” (Swedish MSM rubbish) about Navalny. Of course, Navalny’s stunts were presented as irrefutable evidence of Russia’s rottenness; the ”confession” in the phone call wasn’t even called into question. The ”explanation” for it was that the staff at FSB is so disgruntled and/or indifferent that state secrets are gladly revealed — in particular to such a menace to the Kremlin (no irony) as Navalny. Oh, and by the way, Sweden’s arch-Russophobe Carl Bildt was participating in the studio — a credibility boost indeed.
Well, Navalny’s ”cleverness” isn’t precisely convincing in the art of trickery. Calling your buddy who pretends to be a ”disgruntled FSB official” shouldn’t fool even a 10-year-old, let alone an adult. Rather, the ”smart” touch here is knowing you can rely on a bunch of Western half-wits in a TV studio to corroborate your concoctions, LOL.
Maria sounds surprised by how OPCW operates. I’m not surprised that she sounds surprised. All that Russia says or does comes years or even decades too late ( https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russia-warns-washington-dont-deploy-troops-central-asia-near-afghanistan ). Russia is always chasing the ghosts of the long dead and forgotten issues, and it does it so timidly. What will be the next surprise for Maria?
we shouldn’t forget something like this:
By March 2002, John Bolton — then serving as under secretary of state for Arms Control and International Security Affairs — arrived in person at the OPCW headquarters in the Hague to issue a warning to the organization’s chief. And, according to José Bustani, Bolton didn’t mince words. “Cheney wants you out,” Bustani recalled Bolton saying, referring to the then-vice president of the United States. “We can’t accept your management style.”
Bolton continued, according to Bustani’s recollections: “You have 24 hours to leave the organization, and if you don’t comply with this decision by Washington, we have ways to retaliate against you.”
There was a pause.
“We know where your kids live. You have two sons in New York.”
That very evening I was passing by Charite hospital and saw police cars and ambulance but no other movements except couple of armed policemen at the entrance to Trauma and Emergency departments. Initially I taught that some criminal clans had very hot discussion which often happens here. Therefore nothing exceptional, then I looked at my mobile to N24 TV channel to see what was that all about because you do not see often policemen armed with machineguns standing at the entrance. There it was, it was infamous Russian criminal Navalny (do not forget that he defrauded Swiss company for 400.000 EUR and instead heading for prison he started all of this opposition charade just to avoid prison.
The next day it was announced that Bundeswehr lab confirmed poisoning with Infamous Novichok. In one instant it become all too suspicious because someone was heavily lying. We still remember UK and family Skripal and Novichok there. For a two months Chemical experts were cruising in Hazmat suits looking as from ET movie. Brits claimed that minute quantity can kill person let alone a drop. One drop was capable to wipe out whole city and so on.
To my total dismay I passed by the policemen about 20 to 30 centimetres and according to Brits I let alone policemen would drop dead and die there on the spot. Neither Policeman nor I nor any of hundreds of Charite employees did not have any protection and some were even eating sandwich passing by. It was immediately clear to me that Bundeswehr was directly involved because Merkel she already announced that it was Novichok without having report from Bundeswehr lab.
For this charade I blame Putin because he is well known pro western neo liberal and globalist reacts very strangely when sanctioned he very rarely is using rights to reciprocal retaliation which is normal in international relations and in particular in diplomacy. Besides that he rather plays or it is coward par excellence because despite enormous harm he prefers Russian people to suffer (but not his friends oligarchs). If Russian government would squeeze Merkel hard, sue her on ECHR and move hell and heaven in order to get these data by daily public demands and flood of accusations of the Merkel and German government the whole world would know that Merkel is liar and criminal. However Putin instead choosing hard path as anyone falsely accused would he bent down and offered boot licking service instead. DISGUSTING.