{"id":212962,"date":"2024-02-24T16:10:12","date_gmt":"2024-02-24T20:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=212962"},"modified":"2024-02-24T16:27:36","modified_gmt":"2024-02-24T20:27:36","slug":"wtf-alexei-navalnys-death-and-curious-well-timed-coincidences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=212962","title":{"rendered":"<h2><b>WTF! Alexei Navalny&#8217;s Death And Curious Well-Timed Coincidences<\/b><\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->By Edward Curtin<br \/>\nOff-Guardian.org<\/p>\n<p>There is\u00a0<strong>propaganda by commission and propaganda by omission<\/strong>, the former often serve to conceal the latter.\u00a0<strong>Timing is crucial<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/navalny-memorial-2000x900.jpg?itok=vpaGn_9t\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/navalny-memorial-2000x900.jpg?itok=vpaGn_9t\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-images image-style-inline-images\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/navalny-memorial-2000x900.jpg?itok=vpaGn_9t\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"225\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"9f8a7464-6f02-457c-bdab-1aaddd13fb3f\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>That the U.S. President Joseph Biden, his British, NATO, Israeli allies, and their corporate media mouthpieces are in need of a major propaganda victory is obvious.\u00a0<\/strong>They are losing the war in Ukraine, have been condemned throughout the world for the genocide in Gaza, and are ruling over a disintegrating empire. Biden and Netanyahu\u2019s political lives are at serious risk. And so they have just rolled out a full-court propaganda press effort aimed at covering their losses. It should be crystal clear to anyone who can use logic to see the timing involved.<\/p>\n<p>The great French scholar of propaganda and technology, Jacques Ellul, wrote years ago that\u00a0<strong>propaganda\u00a0<em>\u201cis not the touch of a magic wand. It is based on slow constant impregnation.<\/em><\/strong><em>\u00a0It creates convictions and compliance through imperceptible influences that are effective only by continuous repetition.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>However, once this groundwork has been laid over time \u2013 as it has been with the continuous anti-Russia Putin hysteria and support for Israel\u2019s Zionist policies \u2013 it can be intensely ratcheted up in exigent circumstances when the long-serving narrative is in jeopardy, such as it is now.<\/p>\n<p>Once the death in a Russian prison of the Western backed Russian dissident Alexei Navalny was announced on Friday, February 16, 2024, it was immediately followed by a cascade of anti-Russia pronouncements whose aim was to not only continue the demonization of Russia and its President Vladimir Putin but to serve other purposes as well.<\/p>\n<p><strong>With one fell stroke, the calm history lesson about Ukraine, Russia, and U.S.\/NATO that Putin had just delivered to the world via Tucker Carlson disappeared down the memory hole, as Biden, without any evidence, declared that \u201cPutin and his thugs\u201d and Putin\u2019s \u201cbrutality\u201d are responsible for Navalny\u2019s death.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This, of course, is a replay of the false charges sans evidence waged against Russia for an earlier poisoning of Navalny, the Skripals (since disappeared by the British government), Alexander Litvinenko, et al.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after,\u00a0<strong>Zelensky, performing his puppet routine while coincidently appearing at the Munich Security Conference \u2013 on Saturday, February 17, a day after Navalny\u2019s death was announced \u2013 with Navalny\u2019s then widow, said it was \u201cobvious\u201d that Putin had killed Navalny,<\/strong>\u00a0while Biden pushed for more money for Ukraine\u2019s doomed war against Russia, a U.S.\/NATO war created by the U.S. from the start with its aggressive military push to Russia\u2019s borders and its 2015 Ukrainian coup d\u2019\u00e9tat that ousted the pro-Russian leader, setting the stage for Russia\u2019s incursion into Ukraine in February 2022. That Putin told Carlson these obvious facts, while slyly mentioning to Carlson that he understood that Carlson once tried to join the CIA, is now for most people in the West history lost behind the headlines, if it ever were anything more.<\/p>\n<p>All this happened while Russia pushed through Ukraine\u2019s defenses and took the city of Avdeevka, which had long been contested.\u00a0<strong>With each day that passes, it is obvious that Biden\u2019s Ukraine war strategy is that of a desperate politician on the ropes and that Putin has completely outfoxed the American desperados and their NATO European stooges.<\/strong>\u00a0The MSM prefer to suggest otherwise, that hope is just around the corner if we send billions more dollars and weapons, and if with the help of our British friends, we take the war further into Russian territory and risk a nuclear confrontation. But we are in a propaganda war for the minds of the Western public.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Much of the rest of the world has seen through the risible MSM headlines used to delude the public that Russia is the great threat to world peace and stability.\u00a0<\/strong>Like the previous Russia-gate lies, this ongoing one, coinciding with Navalny\u2019s death, is timed to divert the public\u2019s attention from key ongoing matters.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tomorrow and Wednesday, Julian Assange will have his final appeal in a British court to prevent his extradition to the United States.\u00a0<\/strong>Biden wants this journalist prosecuted for doing the job that the MSM have failed to do: Exposing the facts about the ruthless U.S. killing machine. But the bruhaha about Navalny has rendered the absolute hypocrisy over the torture and imprisonment of the innocent and brave Assange secondary and \u201cinconsequential.\u201d As intended, this has now become an afterthought as\u00a0<strong>the mainstream media\u2019s Russia-obsessed headlines flow uninterruptedly.\u00a0<\/strong><em>The New York Times<\/em>, the key propaganda organ for the Biden administration and the deep-state, reports just today that \u201cThe gravity of President Putin\u2019s threats is now dawning on Europe\u201d and \u201cNavalny\u2019s Widow Promises to Carry on Opposition Leader\u2019s Work.\u201d\u00a0 These are typical\u00a0<em>Times\u2019\u00a0<\/em>rants.\u00a0 As is its Magazine article headline from yesterday \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2024\/02\/18\/magazine\/marilynne-robinson-interview.html\">Marilyn Robinson [the writer and friend of Barack Obama] Considers Biden a Gift of God.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t think the Palestinians would agree, but then too, their slaughter by Israel with U.S. assistance \u2013 more than 29,000 Palestinians in Gaza alone have been killed so far \u2013 and the coming IDF invasion of Rafah, have also been pushed to the back pages or to nowhere by the propaganda about Navalny and Russia.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>I won\u2019t mention the Russian election in mid-March that might possibly factor into all this since we all will be dutifully and timely told that the evil killer Putin is a dictator, ignorant, ruthless \u2013 add your own adjectives \u2013 and is no doubt trying to rig the fair-and-square U.S. November presidential election \u2013 for someone, just as he did in 2016.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Nor mention\u00a0<em>The NY Times<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/02\/17\/us\/politics\/russia-nuclear-weapon-space.html\">\u00a0article<\/a><\/em>\u00a0of February 17 by David Sanger and Julian Barnes that the\u00a0<em>\u201cU.S Fears Russia Might Put a Nuclear Weapon in Space.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Everyone knows that the Russians are coming to get us, as they always have. They probably killed JFK, right?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s easy to follow along as this propaganda eruption circles the Internet like painted ponies on a carousel. There will be no time to stop and think, to pause; to ask what the hell is going on? The ponies will dip and bob and make you dizzy.<\/p>\n<p>For more corroboration of these matters, read the political analyst Gilbert Doctorow\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/gilbertdoctorow.substack.com\/p\/after-trt-world-failed-to-post-my?utm_source=profile&amp;utm_medium=reader2\">astute piece<\/a>\u00a0on how the Turkish broadcaster TRT World refused to post the interview that they did with him.\u00a0<strong>Doctorow claims British intelligence killed Navalny. For some reason this should not be broached,<\/strong>\u00a0according to TRT.<\/p>\n<p>Whether Doctorow is right or not, only a very dimwitted person would think that Putin would have Navalny killed. He has nothing to gain and everything to lose by doing so.<strong>\u00a0Yet the MSM and their government overlords consider most people very stupid and so are trying to blitz them with obvious propaganda through commission and omission.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We have heard this story before.<\/p>\n<p>*\u00a0 *\u00a0 *<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/alexei-navalnys-death-and-curious-well-timed-coincidences\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/alexei-navalnys-death-and-curious-well-timed-coincidences<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=212962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=212962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=212962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=212962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}