Even if it is established that he died of a heart attack, slipped on a bar of soap, or shot himself twice in the head with a bolt action rifle, it's clear who murdered Aleksey Navalny: the same people who tried to murder him before.
Anybody want to support Putin now? Tell me again why it's a good idea to negotiate with someone like Putin, or to urge the Ukrainians to negotiate with the Putin regime. Tell me why it's a great idea to deprive Ukraine of the military aid it needs to enable its survival. Anyone who falls within the power of the Putin regime is lost, and so are we, if we do not support Putin's victims.
This is a sad day for all of us, for all who cherish freedom and human dignity. It was my hope that someday, Navalny would lead Russia and its people to the greatness it could be, with abundance for all instead of cruelty and corruption. He was a hero of the Russian people!
Is it random coincidence that Trump pledges his allegiance to Putin with the threat to leave NATO and our allies undefended? Or that Trump has ordered House Speaker Johnson to block aid to arm Ukraine, at all costs, not even allowing the Senate bill to come to the floor? Or that Tucker Carlson gave Putin 2 hours to seed his fictitious history myth, soften up Tucker's American audience ? Was this Putin's audition for Prime-Time? Not to mention Sen Warner's sudden public warning about Russia targeting our satellites with nukes (with some rather murky facts).
All this events are suddenly accelerating, Putin is most certainly feeling brazen. It is chilling to see such banality of evil as he talks about "being forced to invade". Was calling Putin "evil" back in 2020 an overstatement? Hardly.
Devastated. No words and little hope for Putinās overthrow now. Except maybe, do you think thereās a chance Yulia Navalnaya will step in to lead from abroad in her husbandās stead? Sheās brilliant with a big heart and as you say - tough as nails. Is there hope that she will take on the mantle? š¤ššÆļø
So what happens now to Yashin and Kara-Murza? Do they have a chance of getting exchanged for someone, or are we just waiting for them to turn up dead, too?
Right. Because today, by the rules of Storytime Pacing, is a day for reflection. Or - just throwing it out there - we're in the middle of a world war, and we have to think about the living before the dead.
On the day of his funeral, deepest sympathy and gratitude for your strength in upholding the cause . . . and *holding" Navalny's wife & daughter. With respect, Peter (Neaman) & Victoria (Marsick)
Either former Ambassador McFaul comped me a subscription, or he has opened up his posts for comments by unpaid subscribers, either way, thanks.
"Vladimir Putin is evil." probably I should have addressed this, since i know for a fact he certainly thinks Western liberals like McFaul and the rest of the blob are evil due to destroying traditional gender and sex roles fostering homosexuality, and other WEIRD* ideals, not to mention greed and usury. Putin is a vicious murderer who kills off his enemies. Does this mean he is evil? What is evil? Mass drug abuse, rampant obesity, I can easily point out the obvious deadly flaws in the current iteration of murrican wiberalwism not to mention skin color, which often is also problematic in the USA, or whatever politically correct term you prefer (I call people as they prefer to be called). John Schindler would certainly give you excellent insights into Orthodox Christianity and how it is a lens through which most everyone east of the Oder river thinks. Schindler and Putin alike are in fact believers: people are what they in fact do. Vladimir Putin is a power maximizer seeking to serve what he sees as the Russian national interest. Does this mean he is evil? I think good and evil exist and are useful in ones personal affairs. For this very reason I think one must also be self-critical, like I'm oh-so-perfect. Putin, like any other mafia boss, only kills the people he feels he must. He would say his war on Western Liberal relativism is not a war on truth but rather a war for the truth about Orthodox civilization.
Well, if Putin wants to save the slavs, he needs to end the war yesterday. Putin is in fact continuing Hitler's extermination of slavs at the cost of not one dead Landser. Current events are the realization of many of Hitler's goals.
I don't regard him as evil, just doddering, very much off his game, making mistakes. He believed his own propaganda, and made colossal catastrophic decisions in consequence. I see no way out for him. He will die in office, most likely violently and at the hands of his henchmen.
*Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Developed. These values are often in direct conflict with pre-weird social values like Courage, Honor, Family, Respect. This is why you have mutual incomprehension. Lots of late modernity, our current era, shocks me in bad ways but also leaves me in wonder in other ways.
He was a failed golden child for a planned Russian maidan 2012. He was a racist clearly. He is dead. Move on. Pay attention to the decline in the United States. The housing, the overdose, the poorest borders, the endless proxy wars, the endless billionaires created by wars, the endless deaths in Ukraine that couldāve been avoided by actually being a diplomat instead of being up jilted lover, like Biden was, and decided to ramp up the Anti. so to speak. 500,000 people are dead. and somehow no one is an adult enough in the leadership roles to actually use words they just think that more bombs will create peace. Thatās what fucking lunatics do thatās what Hitler did United States has to stop being Hitler.
Iām so sorry for your personal loss.
Know there are millions of us that mourn with you. š¹
Even if it is established that he died of a heart attack, slipped on a bar of soap, or shot himself twice in the head with a bolt action rifle, it's clear who murdered Aleksey Navalny: the same people who tried to murder him before.
Anybody want to support Putin now? Tell me again why it's a good idea to negotiate with someone like Putin, or to urge the Ukrainians to negotiate with the Putin regime. Tell me why it's a great idea to deprive Ukraine of the military aid it needs to enable its survival. Anyone who falls within the power of the Putin regime is lost, and so are we, if we do not support Putin's victims.
I'm still trying to process this. It's so hard to believe he's gone.
Thanks for your willingness to put the truth out there.
Tragic. May his death not be in vain. F16s and ammunition. Drones and smart bombs NOW!!! Arm Ukraine
This is a sad day for all of us, for all who cherish freedom and human dignity. It was my hope that someday, Navalny would lead Russia and its people to the greatness it could be, with abundance for all instead of cruelty and corruption. He was a hero of the Russian people!
Is it random coincidence that Trump pledges his allegiance to Putin with the threat to leave NATO and our allies undefended? Or that Trump has ordered House Speaker Johnson to block aid to arm Ukraine, at all costs, not even allowing the Senate bill to come to the floor? Or that Tucker Carlson gave Putin 2 hours to seed his fictitious history myth, soften up Tucker's American audience ? Was this Putin's audition for Prime-Time? Not to mention Sen Warner's sudden public warning about Russia targeting our satellites with nukes (with some rather murky facts).
All this events are suddenly accelerating, Putin is most certainly feeling brazen. It is chilling to see such banality of evil as he talks about "being forced to invade". Was calling Putin "evil" back in 2020 an overstatement? Hardly.
Spot on then. Spot on now.
One of the Trump sons said some years back that Russian money kept the Trump Organization afloat. That's all we really need to know about Trump and Russia. Reuters seems to have corroborated that statement. https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-trump-property/
Devastated. No words and little hope for Putinās overthrow now. Except maybe, do you think thereās a chance Yulia Navalnaya will step in to lead from abroad in her husbandās stead? Sheās brilliant with a big heart and as you say - tough as nails. Is there hope that she will take on the mantle? š¤ššÆļø
So what happens now to Yashin and Kara-Murza? Do they have a chance of getting exchanged for someone, or are we just waiting for them to turn up dead, too?
That's a rather crass and unkind question to throw out there today.
Right. Because today, by the rules of Storytime Pacing, is a day for reflection. Or - just throwing it out there - we're in the middle of a world war, and we have to think about the living before the dead.
Just have some respect, for the living and the dead.
This is a terrible and evil crime. One wonders if the murder was timed to follow the Carlson visit
May his memory be a blessing.
Can I say āgod damn!ā and God bless in the same thought?!
Thank you for writing this.
On the day of his funeral, deepest sympathy and gratitude for your strength in upholding the cause . . . and *holding" Navalny's wife & daughter. With respect, Peter (Neaman) & Victoria (Marsick)
Either former Ambassador McFaul comped me a subscription, or he has opened up his posts for comments by unpaid subscribers, either way, thanks.
"Vladimir Putin is evil." probably I should have addressed this, since i know for a fact he certainly thinks Western liberals like McFaul and the rest of the blob are evil due to destroying traditional gender and sex roles fostering homosexuality, and other WEIRD* ideals, not to mention greed and usury. Putin is a vicious murderer who kills off his enemies. Does this mean he is evil? What is evil? Mass drug abuse, rampant obesity, I can easily point out the obvious deadly flaws in the current iteration of murrican wiberalwism not to mention skin color, which often is also problematic in the USA, or whatever politically correct term you prefer (I call people as they prefer to be called). John Schindler would certainly give you excellent insights into Orthodox Christianity and how it is a lens through which most everyone east of the Oder river thinks. Schindler and Putin alike are in fact believers: people are what they in fact do. Vladimir Putin is a power maximizer seeking to serve what he sees as the Russian national interest. Does this mean he is evil? I think good and evil exist and are useful in ones personal affairs. For this very reason I think one must also be self-critical, like I'm oh-so-perfect. Putin, like any other mafia boss, only kills the people he feels he must. He would say his war on Western Liberal relativism is not a war on truth but rather a war for the truth about Orthodox civilization.
Well, if Putin wants to save the slavs, he needs to end the war yesterday. Putin is in fact continuing Hitler's extermination of slavs at the cost of not one dead Landser. Current events are the realization of many of Hitler's goals.
I don't regard him as evil, just doddering, very much off his game, making mistakes. He believed his own propaganda, and made colossal catastrophic decisions in consequence. I see no way out for him. He will die in office, most likely violently and at the hands of his henchmen.
*Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Developed. These values are often in direct conflict with pre-weird social values like Courage, Honor, Family, Respect. This is why you have mutual incomprehension. Lots of late modernity, our current era, shocks me in bad ways but also leaves me in wonder in other ways.
Of course, heās pure evil. It cannot be factually disputed. Navalny knew this well and one could argue that is why he fought so valiantly against him. šā¤ļøāš©¹š¢ May his death give all of us the courage we need to overcome the evil.
He was a failed golden child for a planned Russian maidan 2012. He was a racist clearly. He is dead. Move on. Pay attention to the decline in the United States. The housing, the overdose, the poorest borders, the endless proxy wars, the endless billionaires created by wars, the endless deaths in Ukraine that couldāve been avoided by actually being a diplomat instead of being up jilted lover, like Biden was, and decided to ramp up the Anti. so to speak. 500,000 people are dead. and somehow no one is an adult enough in the leadership roles to actually use words they just think that more bombs will create peace. Thatās what fucking lunatics do thatās what Hitler did United States has to stop being Hitler.