In other words, it’s correct to say he was assassinated, but it is not clear this was ‘ordered’ because of the Chechen run intel orgs, or those that run the black markets for drugs, or those in the ‘mafia’ with internal ties. But it’s in Putin’s interest to let us think so.
Source date (UTC): 2019-07-29 18:15:35 UTC
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@Billbrowder UNDERSTANDING RUSSIAN ASSASSINATIONS
The intelligence services have an independent charter to act without political permission to silence “traitors”. They use poison because it (a)creates unbearable paranoia and is (b)unobservable, (c)untraceable (e)causes suffering (e) symbolic.
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@Billbrowder UNDERSTANDING RUSSIAN ASSASSINATIONS
The intelligence services have an independent charter to act without political permission to silence “traitors”. They use poison because it (a)creates unbearable paranoia and is (b)unobservable, (c)untraceable (e)causes suffering (e) symbolic.
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