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#22I have a huge respect for Navalny. They tried to murder him and after spending time in a German hospital he decided to go back knowing that they'll imprison him or try to kill him again.
I think he miscalculated the degree of cruelty he’ll experience. Also his move itself could be the trigger as if this cruelty would nit be there, then he would have been a hero winning, not a hero losing. Steps “had to be made”, sadly.
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#23https://archive.ph/wqONd
Why do people keep pushing archive.ph/.is? The site is infamous for putting people into constant captcha check hell.
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#25How much popular support does Navalny have in Russia?
(I realize Russia is a banana republic and Navalny is a hero but does he actually represent something that has wide support in Russia? From the few Russians I have talked to, they seems supportive of Putin despite everything.)
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We're lucky to live in the west where that kind of thing doesn't happen.
> We're lucky to live in the west where that kind of thing doesn't happen. Was that a sarcastic comment or did you entirely miss out the whole Snowden affair ?
I think it's a reference to how Trump's lawyers keep on getting in trouble.
AFAIK Snowden's lawyers have never been newsworthy — I'm sure he's got some, but I've never heard of them.
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You were asleep when Trump's lawyers were arrested? Or when Lynne Stewart was arrested?
So I had to google "trump lawyer arrested" and read that she pleaded guilty to "racketeering, conspiracy to commit election fraud, conspiracy to commit computer theft, trespassing and invasion of privacy, and conspiracy to defraud the state." Wow. Quite a list.
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#29I have a huge respect for Navalny. They tried to murder him and after spending time in a German hospital he decided to go back knowing that they'll imprison him or try to kill him again.
>knowing I think the risk was huge (personally I thought 50-70% at the time), but not 99% or something. Also (in my opinion) people don't take into account that alternative was irrelevance in exile, just look at what happened with Kasparov's popularity inside Russia, and he was a prominent opposition activist in 2011-2012.
Still, people tend to value their life higher than their relevance - I mean, in the West he could have probably lived a comfortable life writing books and articles, working as a TV expert on Russia etc. I also respect his decision, but seeing that the powers that be already tried to kill him once, the chances of him returning to Russia and not being arrested were even lower than 1% I would say...