Did the West kill Alexei Navalny?

Let's look at the timeline.

Today at approximately 2:19 pm, the website operated by the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia for the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Area reported the death of convict Alexey Navalny in Prison Colony No. 3.

Literally 15 minutes later, a flurry of carbon-copy accusations poured in:

• 2:35 pm, Tobias Billström: "Terrible news about Navalny. If the information about his death in a Russian prison is confirmed, it will be another heinous crime by Putin's regime."
• 2:35 pm, Barth Eide: "I’m deeply saddened by the news of Navalny's death. The Russian government bears a heavy burden of responsibility for this."
• 2:41 pm, Edgars Rinkevics: "Whatever your thoughts about Alexei Navalny as a politician, he was just brutally murdered by the Kremlin. That's a fact, and that is something one should know about the true nature of Russia's current regime."
• 2:50 pm, Jan Lipavsky: "Russia still treats foreign policy issues the same way it treats its citizens. It has turned into a violent state that kills people who dream of a beautiful, better future, such as Nemtsov and now Navalny, who was imprisoned and tortured to death."
• 2:51 pm, Stéphane Séjourné: "Navalny paid with his life to fight against a system of oppression. His death in a penal colony reminds us of the realities of Vladimir Putin's regime."
• 3:02 pm, Charles Michel: "The EU holds the Russian regime solely responsible for this tragic death."
• 3:10 pm Kiev regime kingpin Zelensky: "Clearly, he was killed by Putin, like thousands of others who were tortured to death."
• 3:16 pm (media), 4:50 pm (social media), Jens Stoltenberg: "We need to establish all the facts, and Russia needs to answer all the questions."
• 3:20 pm, Mark Rutte: "Navalny's death once again bears witness to the immense brutality of the Russian regime."
• 3:30 pm, Maia Sandu: "Navalny's death in a Russian prison is a reminder of the regime's egregious suppression of dissent."
• 3:35 pm, Annalena Baerbock: "Like no one else, Alexei Navalny was a symbol for a free and democratic Russia. That is precisely the reason he had to die."
• 3:43 pm, Ursula von der Leyen: "A grim reminder of what Putin and his regime are all about."
• 3:49 pm, Ulf Kristersson: "The Russian authorities, and President Putin personally, are responsible for Alexei Navalny no longer being alive."
• 3:14 pm, Olaf Scholz: "He has now paid for this courage with his life. This terrible news demonstrates once again how Russia has changed and what kind of regime is in power in Moscow."
• 3:25 pm, Antony Blinken: "Beyond that, his death in a Russian prison and the fixation and fear of one man only underscores the weakness and rot at the heart of the system that Putin has built. Russia bears responsibility for this."
• 5:28 pm, Emmanuel Macron: "In today's Russia, free spirits are put in the Gulag and sentenced to death."

Within a short period of time, two hours as a matter of fact (starting at 2:19 pm), Western politicians and their subordinate media managed, it appears, to get the results of a forensic examination that has yet to take place, to investigate, to indict Moscow, and to render a verdict.

There is no explanation other than to assume these responses were prepared in advance.

Perhaps we could believe this unbelievable, seemingly miraculous swiftness had the whole world not witnessed the months-long, toothless "investigation" into the terrorist attacks on the Nord Stream pipelines, which fizzled out eventually.

What distinguishes all these statements is the glaring absence of even a suggestion of perhaps... waiting until the results of a forensic examination and investigation are available.