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Alexei Navalny has died
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#32Unbelievable. The world just watches.
What do you want to world to do? Russia is already under increasingly crippling sanctions and many countries are funding + arming its opponent in a war.
> Russia is already under increasingly crippling sanctions and many countries are funding + arming its opponent in a war.
Supply more weapons to Ukraine? No matter what, Ukraine lacks resources everywhere. Tanks, long-range missiles, anti-air defense, artillery, ammunition.
Alternatively, we can do whatever we can to assist the Russian opposition. A lot of them have been forced into exile. Give them money and access to even a bit of the juicy stuff the CIA is bound to have on the entire Russian elite...
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#33Frankly, it's strange Putin allowed him to live for so long, normally he just kills his opponent quite fast. Maybe it was just a power show to make everybody understand he can control his opponents' lives completely.
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#34A little reminder of what Putin has been up to in the last few years.
- Annexation of Crimea (2014)
- MH17 Downing (2014)
- Intervention in Syria
- 2016 U.S. Election Interference
- Skripal Poisoning (2018)
- Anti-LGBTQ+ Laws
- Navalny Poisoning (2020)
- Wagner Group Activities
- Invasion of Ukraine (2022)
- Killing of Yevgeny Prigozhin (2023)
- Killing of Alexei Navalny (2024)
What is necessary for US and European Laws, to specify any type of contact, endorsement, indulgence even, of such a regime, is an intolerable criminal offense?
Edit: Its difficult to keep track...
- Killing of Alexander Litvinenko
- 1999 Russian Apartment Bombings
- September 2022 — Ravil Maganov's fatal fall from a hospital window. He was chairman of Russian oil giant Lukoil. Lukoil was the first major Russian company to call for an end to the war in Ukraine
- July 2009 — Natalya Estemirova found dead in a ditch
- October 2006 — Anna Politkovskaya murdered in an elevator
- April 2003 — Sergei Yushenkov murder was never solved. Yushenkov was one of the harshest critics of the Chechen war and the KGB's successor organization, the FSB.
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#35The 2022 documentary 'Navalny' is important and explains how the anti-corruption campaigner got to that terrible place, being poisoned with a Novichok nerve agent and still deciding to go back to Russia.
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#36His death was certain the moment he went back to Russia. He should have stayed back in some European country and continued the fight.
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
Everything we can.
There isn't much more we can do. NATO could end Russia with more weapons and making a defence deal with Saudis in exchange for price dumping of oil and gas[1]. But no one wants a nuclear state to fail. Moscow must be terrified of another coup d'etat, hence Navalny's death. [1]extracting, insurance and delivery cost for Saudis are about $17 and for Russia it maybe as high as $40 now.
To be fair, a nuclear state did fail. The US launched a program to help secure nuclear material and it more or less worked out.
You could argue that if the Russian state failed then a group of nations could literally just buy their nukes from whatever gangsters ever up in charge.
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#38People calling for the US to do more against Russia, be careful what you wish for. You have no idea how close the US is to a draft. The US has been woefully low at filling military recruiting quotas. Keep in mind both presidents during WWI and WWII campaigned to keep us out of those wars. Any major conflict like that will most certainly require a draft. Better keep your saber rattling to a minimum.
Though the percentage of active duty military members has fluctuated since 2001, it has declined by 39% since 1987, its most recent high.
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Everything we can.
There isn't much more we can do. NATO could end Russia with more weapons and making a defence deal with Saudis in exchange for price dumping of oil and gas[1]. But no one wants a nuclear state to fail. Moscow must be terrified of another coup d'etat, hence Navalny's death. [1]extracting, insurance and delivery cost for Saudis are about $17 and for Russia it maybe as high as $40 now.
The US Congress could pass the Ukraine funding package. That's one obvious thing.
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
Everything we can.
There isn't much more we can do. NATO could end Russia with more weapons and making a defence deal with Saudis in exchange for price dumping of oil and gas[1]. But no one wants a nuclear state to fail. Moscow must be terrified of another coup d'etat, hence Navalny's death. [1]extracting, insurance and delivery cost for Saudis are about $17 and for Russia it maybe as high as $40 now.
When Russia invades Poland to create a land connection to Kaliningrad, just as they invaded Ukraine to create a land connection to Crimea, Europe will wish it had done 10x as much as it did.
Western countries could deliver planes, Germany could deliver Taurus cruise missles, countries could give submarines in the atlantic to target Russian oil rigs etc.