by Andrew Korybko
The death of Alexey Navalny in an Arctic prison on Friday, which was tentatively attributed to a blood clot, has sparked another global round of anti-Russian information warfare. Western officials claimed within minutes of the news breaking that President Putin was responsible for his passing, but he had no reason to kill him while the West has every reason to lie that he did. The present piece will present a few arguments in support of these interconnected theses.
The timing couldn’t have been worse from the perspective of Russian state interests. Presidential elections will be held in a month and the incumbent would prefer as high of a turnout as possible, yet now some misled members of the electorate who wouldn’t ordinarily boycott the vote might sit this one out in protest. The West will predictably spin whatever reduced turnout might result from this as delegitimizing President Putin’s mandate when he wins another term as expected.
Furthermore, the unauthorized demonstrations that have taken place in some Russian cities to mourn Navalny prompted law enforcement to detain some of the participants, which the West will exploit in pursuit of the abovementioned goals. Neither outcome will lead to any serious unrest or disrupt the political process inside of Russia, but their importance rests in how much they might continue kindling anti-Russian information warfare operations inside the West itself.
Therein lies the immediate significance of their lies since they’re aimed at generating more support for lagging financial and miliary aid to Ukraine. There’s no connection between Navalny’s death and that conflict, but the narrative is already being spewed that approving more aid is supposedly the best way to spite President Putin. It’s also fortuitous from the West’s perspective that he died while their elite are in Munich right now for this year’s security conference since they can now easily coordinate these plans.
These arguments cogently explain why President Putin had no reason to kill Navalny, not least of which is because this alleged American agent was already imprisoned and therefore no longer posed a national security threat, but why the West has every reason to lie that he did. About the latter’s reaction to events, it’s clearly hypocritical since they didn’t say a peep when Gonzalo Lira died in a Ukrainian prison earlier last month after being arrested on dubious charges related to his video blogging.
Moreover, Navalny’s embrace of Islamophobic, ultra-nationalist, and xenophobic views at one point in his career would have led to him being “canceled” if he was a Western politician according to that civilization’s modern “politically correct” standards, so it’s ironic that he’s being lionized by them. The only reason why they’re doing so is for domestic and foreign information warfare purposes related to emboldening extremist elements and delegitimizing President Putin in the world’s eyes respectively.
That’s always been the role that he was tapped to play in the larger scheme of things, especially after his mysterious poisoning in summer 2020. It was argued at the time that “It’s Unrealistic to Speculate That the Kremlin Wanted to Kill Navalny” for similar reasons as were shared in the present piece, several months after which an answer was provided to the question of “Why’d Navalny Return to the Same Country That He Claimed Tried to Kill Him?” In short, he was tasked with becoming a “political martyr”.
“Navalny Was A NATO Agent, But Not All Unauthorized Protesters Are Foreign Proxies”, neither back then nor now. Nevertheless, his return to the country to face corruption charges and the steep prison sentence that he knew awaited him was always meant to serve as a means for emboldening extremist elements and delegitimizing President Putin, hence why his handlers ordered him to do so. He could have theoretically declined, but he was either too compromised or radicalized to do so.
In any case, the point in refreshing readers’ memories about this is to emphasize that Russia could have simply kept him inside the country after summer 2020’s mysterious poisoning incident and ensured that he died in the hospital, with there being no reason to send him to Germany if they really wanted him dead.
The western media has been caught lying about Ukraine. The skirmish is a disaster for the west because they have been defeated. Now they expect people to believe more lies about navalny. Pudding brain biden called Ukraine a NATO ally.
A complete moron, God help us.
No reason?
Just like there’s “no reason” Trump’s congressional tools betrayed Ukraine one month before Putin’s “election”.
Uhh — people in the United States Congress don’t owe Ukraine any loyalty. WTF.
Robin Ware/Robert L. Peters/JRB Ware/Pedo Peter/idiot Biden totally butt-f**ked Ukraine. His totally stupid and AOC-centric energy dumbassery enabled Putin to attack Ukraine and then he withheld tanks and aircraft from Ukraine. He couldn’t have set them up and screwed them worse if he had planned it… which he may (or his puppeteers) certainly may have done. Now we are just pouring money down a black hole, with a large portion of it getting stolen.
They’re terrified of Navalny, even in death. They’re afraid a public funeral could spark an uprising against Putin.
‘They’re doing everything to avoid handing over his body’: Kremlin plays for time after Navalny’s death –
In the US people have to make a positive identification of a body before it can be released to them for transportation and burial.
Only then the family can make arrangements to move the body for burial.
The government does not have to do the work of a family member here, or in Russia.
The government can bury an unloved convict’s body in a paupers’ grave if no one wants to jump thru the hoops and pay the costs for something better.
Putin reminds me of you leftist gutless cowards.
Uh huh. Trump won’t even say Navalny’s name in public.
Why should he? What are the “harsh repercussions” Robin Ware/Robert L. Peters/JRB Ware/Pedo Peter/idiot Biden is going to bring down upon Putin? He sure had Putin scared and worried, didn’t he?
Putin is even afraid of Navalny’s ghost, which he CAN’T kill.
Well, let’s worry about that when we see him shaking hands with or talking to it, like Robin Ware/Robert L. Peters/JRB Ware/Pedo Peter/idiot Biden does with dead people.
I have no reason to worry about it. It’s Putin who has a beloved patriot’s blood on his hands. He has the blood of hundreds of thousands on his hands, and it won’t wash off.
Isn’t it a damn shame that without Robin Ware/Robert L. Peters/JRB Ware/Pedo Peter/idiot Biden’s stupidity, there would be no war in Ukraine? He can’t wash all that blood off his hands.
Who cares? DC presents 100 times the threat to the security of the American people that Moscow does.
Navalny’s final message to the Russian people. He knew Putin would kill him.
Such patriots are rare. They’re feared by tyrants whenever and wherever they appear.
Why don’t you go kiss his dead ass?
Your hate is showing.
As usual, you can’t answer a question.
It seems you can’t, either. What did I ever do to you to make you suggest that I should kill myself?
Who says you did?
Then why did you tell me to kill myself?
He just thought you might want to volunteer after you said Michael
Reply to Spurwing Plover
1 day ago
What wrong with having fewer people?
When did I tell you that?
Too afraid to either stand behind what you said or acknowledge that it was uncalled-for: the ultimate kid’s move. As you can see in her comment up above, even kitt saw what you said.
You’re not a child, Bill. You should stop acting like one.
So, once again you flail around in your private world of dementia. I want you to provide me my quote where I told you to kill yourself.
He did not say to kill yourself, I have the dark sense of humor where 2 postings could be turned that way only one from DM. Its the Liberal progressives with the murderous streak.
They wanted people cut off healthcare if they didnt take the jab, fired, forced into camps. They protect the murder of the preborn rather than responsibility. Encourage mental illness that leads to suicide.
Which is what Navalny did by returning to Russia, suicide, did he think he wasnt going to be sent to Siberia? A SAD death wonder if he got the de-population Jab in Germany.
However, I do have a recommendation for something he could do to himself.
Putin is a corrupt thug. A lot of us were critical of him back when he was a golden boy for the dems because he was critical of GWB (what short memory spans these leftists have). However, he poses no threat to our Constitutional rights nor is he going to kick down the doors of American citizens just because they oppose Communism, pedophilia, genital mutilation of children, abortion, forced vaccinations with an experimental “vaccine”, lockdowns, open borders, or any of the other leftist religious sacraments they are trying to force down our throats like our federal government is guilty of doing.
02/18/24 – Alexei Navalny death latest: Russian spies ‘visited opposition leader’s prison’ days before death – Several officers from the FSB – Russia’s intelligence service – said to have disconnected security cameras and listening devices on their visit to the Polar Wolf Arctic prison
Ashlee Babbitt’s murder has greater impact on THIS country.
Wow he didnt hang himself?
Maybe he had Hillary’s emails.
02/17/24 – Navalny’s Prison Interview Revealed: ‘I Do Not Believe in Death’ –
I’m far more concerned about the US citizens Robin Ware/Robert L. Peters/JRB Ware/Pedo Peter/idiot Biden has made into political prisoners and those that have died. Why don’t you call on the UN to punish Putin?
Same
Why should we care about others before our fellow Americans?
The answer How is it that hundreds of millions of years of evolution have given this person the most amazing brain—and they don’t use it? …He didnt use his amazing brain, what was the plan returning to Russia? What corruption did he end? He will be missed by his family and followers.
Ukraine still shouldnt get another dime.
We are hurdling towards a level of unrest not seen in over 150 years. The prevailing forces are a minority. People are catching on to the globalist con.