I’m going to admit that I do not understand George Friedman’s reaction to Alexei Anatolyevich Navalny’s death.
My own reaction is that I deplore his death which seems so unnecessary and offer sympathies to his widow and the Russian people. It illustrates the sorry state of Russian politics.
Why make it so complicated? Putin just kills his enemies when he can get away with it. I guess at some level you can feel sorry for the Russian people but it looks like they overwhelmingly support Putin.
Steve
There’s no evidence that I’m aware of that Hitler ever killed anyone.
Party members and erstwhile leaders knew what would please him, it doesn’t have to be a direct order.
Putin knows how to stay in power, carrots and sticks, the men he conscripts for the special operation are not Muscovites, they’re from far away, rural areas whose wrath he knows can’t hurt him. But any dissent close by will meet with imprisonment and death.