Alexei Navalny is dead: what’s now?
Since mass protests against Putin’s comeback in 2011, Alexei Navalny was the most powerful figure among Russian opposition, often divided.
He was Putin’s most vocal – and fierce – critic. His campaigning against corruption that became the Putin regime’s centerpiece was loud. His famous movie about Vlad’s luxury life had tens of millions unique Youtube views in Russia.
He was poisoned almost to death in 2020. He was jailed in 2021. He was killed in 2024.
He was the man Putin really feared. Yes, the Russian President has never said his name, I think, for some mysterious reasons: don’t call your enemy by the name or he comes after you. Putin wanted to show that he just doesn’t notice Navalny. BS! In this case, Alexei would be alive and free.
Putin’s regime killed more than just a person. It killed the symbol of the ‘beautiful Russia of the future,’ according to Alexei Navalny’s famous definition. A democratic Russia. A Russia with no personal dictatorship, with no corruption as a governing system, with equal rights to everyone.
Putin’s finishing touch was not to release the body to his family. Obviously, the Kremlin is feared by the mass protest that Navalny’s funeral would turn to. The regime transmits its devotion to ‘conservative values.’ Such a decision has nothing to do with either law or morality.
This is exactly what Putin’s regime is all about.
P.S. Now Yulia Navalnaya, Alexei’s widow, has announced that she takes his torch to continue fighting Putin’s system. They killed the man but they won’t kill the idea.
Navalny – and the U.K.
After the prison murder of Alexei Navalny, Russia’s only realistic opposition politician to challenge Putin, the reaction from the British government is typical of a totally dysfunctional and corrupt organisation. Hardly any action, but a plethora of words. “Oh, we’ll make them pay, and hold them accountable” they waffled. So, what have they done? Frozen the asset of six Russian prison bosses in charge of the Arctic penal colony where Navalny was murdered. Not only that, all six are banned from travelling to the U.K.
You may well ask how much humble prison officers have in their bank vaults, and yes, the Arctic Six will be so sorry that they can’t take their holidays in the English countryside. Risible and derisory.
Sanctions are not working. It’s not stopping Putin’s crusade to dominate the world, using any means, however vile and evil. The only way to stop him is for every other nation to fund Ukraine and continue to give them every assistance until Putin and his malevolent regime is totally destroyed.
I am continually baffled, indeed astonished how the world refuses to learn the lessons of history, to the extent that most of us seem to have erased it from our collective memory. Do you know who is the more dangerous man – Hitler, or Putin? Of course, it’s Putin. He’s still alive.
Putin murdered Navalny because he wanted to send a stark message. A warning, if you like, that he is making his move. Just like Hitler did all those years ago. We didn’t listen then, and we are not listening now. No doubt Dean will write about his country’s refusal to pass a support package for Ukraine, and I have already described the U.K.’s pathetic response to the murder.
Europe is not ready and is totally ill-equipped to defend itself. When Putin-loving-Trump gets elected this year, you can count on America not being the slightest help either.
This month marks the second anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Navalny is now dead, via a cold-blooded murder. If I were you, I would be getting very worried about our future. Very worried indeed.
Navalny
I have something to say, and I really want you to read these words carefully: I admire my co-writer. We all think we would be brave… a leader by example. When things turn sour, we would be the one to take a stand, uncertain if there will be a knock at the door. But would you? Would you really? What are you willing to risk? Family, home, life? How about all of it?
Leaders of democracies around the world have been uniform in the condemnation of Mr. Putin and Navalny’s death. Of course, I haven’t received any secret briefing but I don’t think I need one. What is clear and public are the crazy claims coming from Moscow television right now. Special forces from the West penetrated the prison and killed Navalny so that Russia would look bad. Yes, that’s the line on Russian television at this moment. Special Forces broke into a prison, unseen, got into a cell holding the most famous political prisoner in the world, unseen, killed him, slipped back out, unseen, and were extracted from one of the planet’s most remote regions, again unseen. I wonder why it hasn’t occurred to these Fox wannabes’ that that these lies makes their law enforcement look like clowns.
Of course, Putin and Trump both have the common sense to not say much about the entire affair. They both have bigger fish to fry at the moment. They both made statements and neither has condemned the turn of events. It took Trump three days to mention the man’s name and only did so by comparing Navalny to his own legal problems. DT & VP: ❤️ to the end.
There is no downside… NONE. There is no reason for Putin not to murder anybody he feels like. What do you think is going to happen? Maybe somebody will slap hard sanctions on him. I have an idea, how about we forbid Aeroflot from flying anywhere in Europe, North America, or large areas of the Far-East. There is no cost in killing as many people as he wants. Almost everything short of war has already been done.
Moreover, his pal Trump has ordered Republicans in the ironically named Freedom Caucus, in the US House, to kill any aid for Ukraine. Putin: Orange Jesus has your back, bro.
So, what’s next? Nothing. Nothing happened and nobody can do anything about it. Ooo… more sanctions: shut-up!
A quick note for our international audience: Orange Jesus is the name Republican US Senators call Trump behind his back: Total respect.