{"id":35825,"date":"2020-09-07T05:29:06","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T13:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=35825"},"modified":"2020-09-07T18:54:06","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T02:54:06","slug":"in-navalny-poisoning-rush-to-judgment-threatens-new-russia-nato-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/07\/in-navalny-poisoning-rush-to-judgment-threatens-new-russia-nato-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"In Navalny Poisoning, Rush to Judgment Threatens New Russia-NATO Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jTWcVOHEQTo\"><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">Pushback with Aaron Mat\u00e9<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">Claims that Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny has been poisoned by the nerve agent Novichok are threatening a new standoff between Russia and NATO states, with calls for punitive measures against Moscow, including cancelling the Nordstream 2 German-Russia pipeline.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">Navalny&#8217;s opposition activism is &#8220;marginal in Russian politics &#8212; it&#8217;s not currently a threat to the Kremlin,&#8221; says Fred Weir, a veteran Moscow correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor. &#8220;Navalny is little more than a nuisance [to the Kremlin]. And I can&#8217;t believe that Putin would rocket him to the top of the world political agenda through a botched attempt to assassinate him, or even an effective one. It just does not make sense to me.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">Weir also discusses the flaws of Russia coverage in Western media, including the recent case where Russians were accused of staging a fake left-wing website to deceive U.S. audiences. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"In Navalny poisoning, rush to judgment threatens new Russia-NATO crisis\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jTWcVOHEQTo?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pushback with Aaron Mat\u00e9 Claims that Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny has been poisoned by the nerve agent Novichok are threatening a new standoff between Russia and NATO states, with calls for punitive measures against Moscow, including cancelling the Nordstream 2 German-Russia pipeline. Navalny&#8217;s opposition activism is &#8220;marginal in Russian politics &#8212; it&#8217;s not currently [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-35825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-russia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35827,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35825\/revisions\/35827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35825"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=35825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}