Pompeo Collinsing over

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday said the U.S. is “deeply concerned” over preliminary conclusions that Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny was poisoned while on his way to Moscow last week.

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“Mr. Navalny’s family and the Russian people deserve to see a full and transparent investigation carried out, and for those involved to be held accountable. Our thoughts are with Mr. Navalny’s family and we hope for his full recovery,” he wrote.

  The Hill

How interesting that this particular charge against the Russians should concern him when the one about putting bounties on American soldiers didn't even raise an eyebrow.

The European Union and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have called for Russia to investigate the circumstances of the apparent attack after a comatose Navalny was transferred from the Russian city of Omsk to Berlin on Saturday.

That would be like asking Bill Barr to investigate Trump.

Pompeo’s statement marks his first public recognition of the situation since Navalny first fell ill Thursday on a flight from Siberia to Moscow.

I guess it's a little hard to ignore when the man is in Germany and German doctors are reporting.

The Kremlin has said the German diagnosis is not conclusive and that there’s no reason yet to launch an investigation, Reuters reported. Moscow categorized as “hot air” allegations that Putin was behind the suspected attack.

Two years ago, the Kremlin drew international outrage when it was accused of poisoning Russian-double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in the English town of Salisbury.

U.K. officials connected that poisoning to the Russian chemical weapon Novichok and put the blame on Putin for ordering the attack. The U.S. followed the lead of the U.K. in imposing sanctions on Moscow in that instance, including closing a Russian consulate and deporting dozens of Russian diplomats and intelligence officials from the U.S.

The Skripal case, however, was unique in that it was a foreign attack on sovereign U.K. soil, with Navalny's suspected poisoning taking place inside Russia and raising questions for how forcefully the U.S. can respond.

Or wants to.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.