Yeah Navalny is dead but have you looked at their shopping carts?
Yep, we need more interviews with Putin. Things ArE CoMpLIcATeD.
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#132Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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 ?
I have mentioned Slovakia because conspiracy theories are mainstream there. Ministry of culture is ruled by one of those medias. I have mentioned Slovakia because I constantly hear about 'US bad Russia Good' there. I mentioned Slovakia because that is my home country. So tell me why would you assume my lack of knowledge?
My wife's from there and I spend quite a lot of time there. Everybody and their uncle became a Slovak politic expert during the last election while half of them didn't even know Czechoslovakia wasn't a thing anymore the day prior.
Unless you evolve in very weird circles you probably know that it's infinitely more complex than 'US bad Russia Good'
> So tell me why would you assume my lack of knowledge?
Hard to tell if you're part of the "Slovakia should be kicked out of EU because they voted bad" crowd that popped up out of nowhere (and disappeared as quickly apparently). It's much less black and white than people make it look like, for example: https://cdn.statcdn.com/Infographic/images/normal/27331.jpeg
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#133Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is dead, the prison service of the Yamalo-Nenets region where he had been serving his sentence said on Friday.
This is the Biden‘s red line, just like Syria was the red line for Obama. In 2021 he promised dangerous consequences for Russia if Navalny dies.
I'm not sure this situation is comparable because the US is already fighting a proxy war including economic sanctions against Russia's invasion of Ukraine, with US materiel and funds directly responsible for the deaths of thousands of Russian soldiers.
Pentagon estimates 300,000 Russian casualties so far. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/15/world/europe/russia-invas...
In concrete terms what would you suggest the US do now in order to respond to Navalny's death?
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#135Yeah Navalny is dead but have you looked at their shopping carts?
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#136The (small) upside of all this missery, death and pain is Europe will lose some territory but gain it's own military security after decades of living from the US strategy alignment. Countries like Poland will no longer buy US weapons but increase European defense spending - they fear just like Ukraine that US congress just turns around and will stop delivering parts for F-35s in a conflict [0]. The US lost all it's t…
I don't think anybody thought that it would, but here we are. It is quite amazing how time and again we seem to enable little narcissistic men to gain hold of positions of power. And I can't even really complain because NL has Geert Wilders to deal with right now and his foaming-at-the-mouth band of supporters who believe that everything that is wrong with this country can be traced back to immigration. On top of tha…
The upcoming 2024 election cycle will be one for the history books, regardless of outcome. And that outcome can be incredibly bad.
I said it before, if Trump gets a second term, he will have a third. And then democracy as we know it in the Western world will be dead.
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#137> Putin has been informed of the death, says Kremlin In advance, one assumes.
It was probably his idea.
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#138Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I personally think it makes a clown show of Musk and Carlson Putin fan club we have going on, now they're buddies with a murder. I mean Putin has murdered many people, but this one is pretty fresh and seems to hold a lot more weight because of the stature of the victim.
In their eyes it makes Putin more, not less attractive because that's how they view their own little power fantasies: to do away with their enemies, real and perceived.
It's not as if we collectively refused to do business with the murderer (correction, butcher) of a journalist in a f'ing embassy. That stood pretty much unchallenged besides some finger wagging.
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#139I wonder how the Kremlin apologists will spin this one. I find it unbelievable that someone like Putin seems to inspire people that are nominally far outside of his sphere of influence in spite of decades of mass murder leading an empire run by criminals.
"He was a western puppet" I've heard this already.
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#140Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't think anybody thought that it would, but here we are. It is quite amazing how time and again we seem to enable little narcissistic men to gain hold of positions of power. And I can't even really complain because NL has Geert Wilders to deal with right now and his foaming-at-the-mouth band of supporters who believe that everything that is wrong with this country can be traced back to immigration. On top of tha…
The upcoming 2024 election cycle will be one for the history books, regardless of outcome. And that outcome can be incredibly bad. I said it before, if Trump gets a second term, he will have a third. And then democracy as we know it in the Western world will be dead.
The one saving grace is that he's old. You'd hope for some divine intervention, unfortunately I'm not religious.