- 18 Jan 2021 19:55
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@Rancid ;
Nothing I have seen from the man in the past indicates his choosing to return to Russia strictly of his own free will, regardless of how this is spun in the public media to suggest otherwise. If Russia's special services wanted him dead before, he'd be dead. And if he is returning to the country they run politically, then he is probably being run, politically, by them. Regardless of the wishes of Western liberal elites and their retainers to think and plan otherwise. Perhaps he is a patriot and perhaps he is a good Orthodox Christian, I don't know, maybe he is not, connected as he is to shady people both east and west. His return to Russia is theater, just as was his leaving Russia.
I am not speaking of the man personally; he is actually allegedly in trouble on criminal charges related to the defrauding of a Western corporation after all, and I suspect that the truth of who and what Navalny is is more complicated than a regular Western audience can usually handle. They like their good guys to be good and our bad guys to be bad, and all problems resolved in an hour's time so we can catch the next show on TV. Real life isn't like that.
Rancid wrote:Why are you so sure he was returned, and didn't choose to return?
@Rancid ;
Nothing I have seen from the man in the past indicates his choosing to return to Russia strictly of his own free will, regardless of how this is spun in the public media to suggest otherwise. If Russia's special services wanted him dead before, he'd be dead. And if he is returning to the country they run politically, then he is probably being run, politically, by them. Regardless of the wishes of Western liberal elites and their retainers to think and plan otherwise. Perhaps he is a patriot and perhaps he is a good Orthodox Christian, I don't know, maybe he is not, connected as he is to shady people both east and west. His return to Russia is theater, just as was his leaving Russia.
I am not speaking of the man personally; he is actually allegedly in trouble on criminal charges related to the defrauding of a Western corporation after all, and I suspect that the truth of who and what Navalny is is more complicated than a regular Western audience can usually handle. They like their good guys to be good and our bad guys to be bad, and all problems resolved in an hour's time so we can catch the next show on TV. Real life isn't like that.