Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Alexei Navalny has died

reuters.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

631–640 of 1001 posts

Re: Alexei Navalny has died

#631

Post by manmal »

ivan_gammel wrote: post #486
stcroixx wrote: post #474

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Europe deciding to depend on Russia for their energy and not focusing on defense spending is the unbelievable part to me, but they've been doing this for quite some time now. They walked right into it. Russia is doing what they've always done and always will do.

It was reasonable not to see Russia as enemy. It was well integrated into European trade and some political structures (PACE, NATO-Russia council etc) and there were even talks about visa-free travel between Russia and EU. What went wrong was the glacial speed of integration, letting the nationalist sentiment and disappointment in West grow. Post-WWII Europe was pacified through a political union between Germany and…

Did you mean someone else than Orban?

Re: Alexei Navalny has died

#633

Post by ramijames »

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…

If you think this will be limited to Europe, you are sadly mistaken.

Re: Alexei Navalny has died

#634

Post by zarzavat »

bitcharmer wrote: post #465
zarzavat wrote: post #212

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can’t be that, his wife went back with him to Russia and stayed there afterwards. Hardly the actions of someone protecting their family.

> Can’t be that Umm... why? He was given a choice. Either he returns or his family gets assassinated.

If someone was threatening to kill your family, would you deliver your wife to them? Nothing in the world would compel you, obviously.

Clearly he believed that his family’s lives were exceptionally safe, probably way more safe than they actually were.

The only explanation for his return that fits with the manner of his return is that he wanted to martyr himself.

Re: Alexei Navalny has died

#635

Post by beeboobaa »

cooper_ganglia wrote: post #625
cglace wrote: post #144

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The US has provided more funding to Ukraine than the world combined by a large margin, and the lesson you take away is that the US is somehow at fault. The one bill that was blocked by Congress would be more support than Europe as a whole has provided to Ukraine to date. While I agree that European countries should start to take their defense seriously I don't see how you fault US support of Ukraine.

“America bad” is the opium of the masses. IMO, if any random country’s government whom we are not allied with through NATO publicly criticizes the USA’s response to helping them out in a war that we have no obligation to help with, I believe we should immediately cease any and all financial aid and let them feel the squeeze. When they publicly apologize and recognize that the United States is truly the only thing kee…

You should try to work on your maturity instead of throwing a hissy fit at the first whiff of criticism.

Re: Alexei Navalny has died

#637

Post by jakub_g »

endigma wrote: post #626

Its funny to me that with the current state of Russia this guy could have died with absolutely zero interference from the state and the rest of the world will assume he was killed no matter what comes out of Russian media, purely due to their track record with this sort of thing.

There is even a dedicated wiki page for 2022+ deaths of Russian businesspeople

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspicious_deaths_of_Russian...

Re: Alexei Navalny has died

#639

Post by wizerdrobe »

lm28469 wrote: post #82
I_am_tiberius wrote: post #4

Unbelievable. The world just watches.

I mean, for decades the US played the world's police, idk if it turned out to be a net positive in the end. What do you want "the world" to do ?

In fairness and in honesty, I can’t help but think of the American citizens assassinated by drone during the Obama administration.

I guess a politician is worth more than an Arab-American teenager?

Re: Alexei Navalny has died

#640

Post by unethical_ban »

seanw444 wrote: post #517
avaika wrote: post #503

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The war affects everyone. Some people die, some suffer because they are under shelling or occupation, some suffer cause their loved one die. But those outside war zone suffer as well. Due to broken food chains, crazy economic inflation and general political instability. For sure it's as bad as when you're dead because of the random shell hitting your home, but still. When a man with a nuclear button savagely kills hi…

I don't understand why people are so scared specifically about Putin's nukes. He's not the only murderous dictator with a big red button, but he's the only one I hear people worrying about. Xi + the CCP is just as much, if not more, of a threat. And due to the way things are going, they're testing the waters in cooperation and friendship.

For all of China's faults, the country seems less reliant on hard power for survival. Russia is a country with three tricks only: fossil fuels, nuclear weapons and destabilizing democracies.

China is a manufacturing and technology powerhouse.

Post reply on HN