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Alexei Navalny has died

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Re: Alexei Navalny has died

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Post by lm28469 »

timeon wrote: post #49
merpkz wrote: post #41

So in latest news, last opposition figure in Russia dies together with any hope for regime change while Russia's war effort is starting to get some traction with it's overwhelming man power and Ukraine is forced to cede more territory all while west is busy either with it's in-fighting or comparing each others superior GDP and how Russia will crumble just any day now (TM). Man, are we in for a ride next decade in Eur…

> west is busy either with it's in-fighting or comparing each others superior Also slowly folding. It is not happening only in little countries like Slovakia. US has relevant party that is now openly pro-Putin.

> Also slowly folding. It is not happening only in little countries like Slovakia.

I assume you don't know much about Slovakia besides the few headlines that pop here and there, right ?

Re: Alexei Navalny has died

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Post by bitcharmer »

profunctor wrote: post #6
I_am_tiberius wrote: post #4

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.

> Russia is already under increasingly crippling sanctions

The sanctions don't look that crippling from where I'm standing. Russia keeps intensifying their war effort in Ukraine

Re: Alexei Navalny has died

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Post by jacquesm »

wouldbecouldbe wrote: post #43
I_am_tiberius wrote: post #4

Unbelievable. The world just watches.

It's hard to think of any military intervention in the last 60 years by US and their friends that left the region or country in a better state, Asia, South-America, Africa, Middle-east it all became big mess. Arguable some of that mess was by design, but not all. Russia is not something anyone can solve from the outside; they have to figure it out themselves. Same for the Europe & the US, there are enough things to f…

There are other ways short of military intervention that can be quite effective.

Re: Alexei Navalny has died

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Post by MrDresden »

sumedh wrote: post #36

His death was certain the moment he went back to Russia. He should have stayed back in some European country and continued the fight.

He will be remembered along with other reformers of history who stood up to what they believed and in the end paid with their lives.

I truly hope his death will not be in vain.

Re: Alexei Navalny has died

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Post by wouldbecouldbe »

belter wrote: post #34

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…

Yet it's not Russia you should worry about. But China. They are the real threat and are actively playing strategic chess by taking over resourceful parts of Africa, building up their military & immigrating their people over the world.

Re: Alexei Navalny has died

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Post by chaostheory »

merpkz wrote: post #41

So in latest news, last opposition figure in Russia dies together with any hope for regime change while Russia's war effort is starting to get some traction with it's overwhelming man power and Ukraine is forced to cede more territory all while west is busy either with it's in-fighting or comparing each others superior GDP and how Russia will crumble just any day now (TM). Man, are we in for a ride next decade in Eur…

Not sure I remember the source, but even Navalny was not against Russia’s war to get its buffer zones back. Of course, if Navalny was able to magically overthrow Putin, it’d be harder for a democratic regime to fight an offensive war because no one wants to personally participate in a war.

Re: Alexei Navalny has died

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Post by jacquesm »

profunctor wrote: post #6
I_am_tiberius wrote: post #4

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.

They're not nearly crippling enough. But the problem is that there are a lot of sanction breakers and that those get away with it because we allow them to. That could and probably should stop. Obviously that will hurt the West as well but I'm ok with that, there are no principles without a cost.
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