Orchestrated Events Responsible for Alexey Navalny’s Illness?

On Monday, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova noted that dubious claims about Navalny’s alleged novichok nerve agent poisoning appear to be following a “script (that) was written in advance.” Russophobic establishment media reports about what happened have the distinct aroma of fake news like countless times before on issues relating to Moscow. In response to Russia’s request for Berlin to provide verifiable evidence of what it claims happened to Navalny, “nothing, zero” was sent, nothing publicly revealed, said Zakharova. Did Navalny fall ill naturally or from foul play? If the latter, cui bono? Clearly not Russia. Dark forces in the US and their imperial partners alone...