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Unbelievable. 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.
Let's not pretend that Russia is the only country on the planet that houses political prisoners in its jails.
I'm sure I'll get downvoted to hell for this, but seriously, the west isn't any better.
Barred anti-war Russian presidential candidate [Boris Nadezhdin] fails in two legal challenges [0]
[0] https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/barred-anti-war-russian...
A 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 L…
A 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 L…
- Invasion in Georgia (2008)
His death was certain the moment he went back to Russia. He should have stayed back in some European country and continued the fight.
Still sucks it had to come to this. But I agree, this wasn't the unexpected outcome.
Well, here's another example of the thing that most of those who grew up in that culture know or feel subliminally: the hero always crushes evil and triumphs at the end of the story. But in real life, for every success there are thousands that wither along the way.
Earlier 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.
This is a nice idea but thanks to the shale revolution the US is now a net exporter of fossil fuels, and I suspect the will is not there.
> insurance
What percentage of energy is going out insured? It was my understanding that the transportation was moving to state owned vessels.
I often wonder what Russia will be like once Putin is gone. The time he has left can't be very long, so what happens then?
He still has ~20 years.