waypoint100

Instead of asking pseudo-philosophical staged questions, why didn't he ask that chat-bot to solve e.g. one of the Millennium Prize Problems (chat-bot can request any prep material). All the naive illusions would disappear in a wink. But that guy might be just indeed delusional

It could be not necessary Russia's motive. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/czech-minister-says-russia-ro... Imagine if a - let's say Westinghouse Electric Corporation - wants a juicy government contract and wants to kick China General Nuclear and Rosatom out of competition. How would you do that? One way to do it - dig out 7 year old skeleton and drag it through the streets of the town with the mask of Putin.

Cheap and effective, ~7 billion $ is at stake.

Yeah, everything they write in articles is true, of course.

Qui bono?

Obama-Biden administration is major cause of millions of deaths in Middle East, Africa, etc. Yet Obama got a Nobel prize for peace and Biden accuses other of being a "killer".

Well if you watch that carefully, you'd see that Navalny pushing hard his version of events on that other guy, who pretty much responds mostly "I don't know much".

Now imagine a situation that bellingcat picked up this poor guy, who might be nothing but part of surveillance team and carefully staged this phone record to create an impression that the guy is some sort of a hitman.

In the West people might think that Navalny is a prominent opposition hero, but in reality he's known to be a some sort of "attention whore", has a limited popularity

It's amazing that people really believe in these conspiracy theories about evil Russian government which tries to kill people with Novichok, an agent so powerful that it cant kill anyone.

There are much more simple and effective ways. E.g. just hire a street thug, pretend a robbery