• FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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        4 months ago

        I don’t that I buy ‘just an accident’.

        I’m not stupid enough to think that it was necessarily Russia, though. But seriously, how many people die randomly swimming. Particularly when they probably have some security standing on their every move?

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          4 months ago

          It’s quite possible that he had taken the opportunity of being in a country with easier access to alcohol and drugs to go on a bender and ended up drowned. Remember Yeltsin standing outside the white house in his underwear pissed out of his gourd trying to hail a taxi to get pizza?

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            4 months ago

            I remember a few years ago, Russia had an unseasonably warm summer and a rash of drownings because they got drunk and couldn’t swim.

          • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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            4 months ago

            Pretty sure that was before my time.

            I don’t suppose you have a video? Asking for a friend…

            Though, again, their security detail is total shit if they let a drunken slob get that pissed and drown.

            Delegations going abroad don’t get to go without an escort. especially from countries where the risk of defection is insanely high.

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          4 months ago

          A lot of people die randomly swimming. Just last week someone drowned in the river near me, and a few months back, there was a drowning in a lake. Both involved alcohol.

          I just don’t see why drown the NK envoy.

          • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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            4 months ago

            My present speculation, if it wasn’t an accident, was that he was trying to defect/escape NK.

            Russia isn’t the only place to use political executions.

            Alternatively, it could have been a western state- Ukraine features high (if they have the capability?) specifically to impose some strain on relations.

            We’ll prolly never know what really happened.

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        4 months ago

        Probably wanted that guy gone anyway. Why waste space on a plane for someone who can eat all your delicious dirt definitely edible food.