Tom Paine 1949
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The mere fact that you mentioned Navalny ruins all the theories you came up with once and for all. The fucker has long since been forgotten and not mentioned here ever. Nobody gives a shit about him, at all! You give an impression of being an educated man but this shit concerning Russia astounds me by its sheer out of touchness with the real life.
But the West gives a shit, and he has a very nationalist “patriotic” history that means — if he survives — he could be a useful compromise character to negotiate an end to war. NOBODY outside the security services and administrative elite, and really practically nobody within them, has a popular base and gets sympathetic coverage in the press and media in Putin’s Russia. Putin saw to that.
Of course there are ultra-nationalist commentators and sundry “theorists” and news media personalities — but they cannot negotiate peace. Most still favor expanding the war and trying to crush or wipe out Ukraine.