Alexei Navalny has died

[Starlight321]

23 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

I figured out why Putin had Navalny killed now. It's because his election is coming up and he is fond of anniversery style gestures.

Now the loose ends are tied up right on the eve of his reelection. A little reelection gift to himself.

Clever devil.

What about the munich security summit where he confronted the west for their (from his pov) dishonedt ways? Maybe both because the summit this year has been over the weekend after his death?

@Leo Gura

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Munich_speech_of_Vladimir_Putin

[Tanz]

@Leo Gura I don't think he needed to wack the guy. Generally at a time of war, countries don't like to change leaders. That's why George W got a second term dispite of the hate he was getting within the country and around the world. Those were good times when the left was anti war and united.

That guy that spoke against the war in Ukraine also got whacked. It seems these eastern European countries don't like dessent and like to ignore the wellbeing and treatment of jailed individuals.

[Leo Gura]

4 hours ago, Tanz said:

I don't think he needed to wack the guy.

It's not so much a need as a sense of order.

Putin has a policy. In his own words: "Traitors must of course be punished."

Authoritarians tend to have a strong sense of order.

Edited February 25 by Leo Gura

[Applegarden8]

On 2/25/2024 at 3:16 PM, Leo Gura said:

Putin has a policy. In his own words: "Traitors must of course be punished."

It's clearly not the case. Putin just doesn't want to lose his comfortable seat with his oligarchs he bribed each other with so he has to distract people with war. Ukraine had a change of president from zhulik to Zelensky, therefore a slight shift to democracy, Putin fears he will lose his seat because of this peaceful transfer of power that can happen in Russia also. It's not a strong sense of order, it's utter self-preservation to the degree of laughter. It's just him trying to over-extend his pathetic life and Navalny almost got him, and would be after him if he was released due to prisoner exchange program. But he obviously killed Navany from the top. That man almost broke him, took his precious seat sucking the blood out of the Russian masses.

He lives a double life, what principles he has other than making sure he steals something, bribes somebody for his advantage and kills the opposition. He doesn't believe in god probably. His religion is propaganda and building castles.

Thank you, Navalny. Slava Ukraine. 

 

Edited February 26 by Applegarden8

[Danioover9000]

   A very interesting take on all this, a systemic sounding take which IMO is iffy to say the least if you breakdown his argumentation for why;

   It's a lot more complicated than that, plus there's more to politics than that.

[Yimpa]

On 2/25/2024 at 7:16 AM, Leo Gura said:

It's not so much a need as a sense of order.

Putin has a policy. In his own words: "Traitors must of course be punished."

Authoritarians tend to have a strong sense of order.

Would you consider Trump to have authoritarian qualities?