It is also interesting that Navalnya was immediately able to make a statement at the Munich Security Conference. Perfect timing or clumsy propaganda staging? I think the former confirms the latter.
I am slowly getting tired being hesitant when I am stating the obvious to those who refuse to see it. I just have to keep doing it - without hesitation....
I totally understand you, I often feel the same way. Spending a week researching, thinking and writing only to get one comment and two likes after publication can be frustrating.
However, it shouldn't stop us from doing what we do ("without hesitation"): Using our critical perspective to motivate others in our small circle to also look at things critically and reflect on them.
Even if we only reach a few with it, we ensure that the resistance to everyday madness grows - even if only slowly. I also think that it is part of their plan (the information overload also plays into their hands, of course) to deprive lesser-known authors of their motivation to bring critical content to readers in their small communities. They want to fight criticism at its roots so that it doesn't spread grassroots-style and become a threat to them. Let's not allow this to happen!
This is what I think about Navalny, (from memory of reading the news), I am not going to look anything up.
I remember at first Navalny was an anti-corruption voice (in Russia). He did some Youtube pieces on the abundant assets of Medvedev, (drone fly-overs of country estates and the like), and asked where did he get those riches? I didn't see anything on Putin, but there may have been.
Of what possible interest is Russian anti-corruption to the American CIA? ZERO. So they cast Navalny as an opposition figure and gave him the job to be repressed. Navalny started holding demonstrations without a permit. (He could have gotten a permit.) The first time he got 15 days in jail and a reprimand. OK now were getting somewhere, so that hit the western news. With the 2nd unauthorized demonstration he got 30 days and a fine.
So as the new "opposition figure", Navalny's job was to get into jail, to make some western news. Follow that reasoning throughout his whole career, and it always makes sense with the circumstances. He is a figure like Juan Gerardo Guaidó, but with different job opportunities. But he was still on salary.
I would say he self-administered something given to him, to get into Germany, and then some fishy trace chemicals were discovered, somewhere down the line. No Doctor at Charité would sign off on any poisoning.
Then after disobeying his probation terms, why did he go back to Russia? Clearly, he had to get into jail to keep his salary coming. Then some of his embezzlement came to light, (or was already known), and his jail term mushroomed.
Then what happened to get him back into the news??? I don't know, but he was on a perpetual chemical diet for years, and who knows what the side effects or interactions between drugs are going to be? In this case, a brain hemorrhage. That's a worthy event, so the salary was transferred to his wife.
It is just my fantasy story, so don't try to verify it.
Fantasy or not, it is a most plausible description of the situation.
I still owe you a reply to your previous comment. You have to forgive me, for I am on the road and quite busy. I can hardly keep up with my weekly posts. I will only be back home in mid May
It is also interesting that Navalnya was immediately able to make a statement at the Munich Security Conference. Perfect timing or clumsy propaganda staging? I think the former confirms the latter.
https://thehill.com/policy/international/4472349-navalny-wife-speech-munich-security-conference/
I am slowly getting tired being hesitant when I am stating the obvious to those who refuse to see it. I just have to keep doing it - without hesitation....
I was sitting on this post for a week
I totally understand you, I often feel the same way. Spending a week researching, thinking and writing only to get one comment and two likes after publication can be frustrating.
However, it shouldn't stop us from doing what we do ("without hesitation"): Using our critical perspective to motivate others in our small circle to also look at things critically and reflect on them.
Even if we only reach a few with it, we ensure that the resistance to everyday madness grows - even if only slowly. I also think that it is part of their plan (the information overload also plays into their hands, of course) to deprive lesser-known authors of their motivation to bring critical content to readers in their small communities. They want to fight criticism at its roots so that it doesn't spread grassroots-style and become a threat to them. Let's not allow this to happen!
This is what I think about Navalny, (from memory of reading the news), I am not going to look anything up.
I remember at first Navalny was an anti-corruption voice (in Russia). He did some Youtube pieces on the abundant assets of Medvedev, (drone fly-overs of country estates and the like), and asked where did he get those riches? I didn't see anything on Putin, but there may have been.
Of what possible interest is Russian anti-corruption to the American CIA? ZERO. So they cast Navalny as an opposition figure and gave him the job to be repressed. Navalny started holding demonstrations without a permit. (He could have gotten a permit.) The first time he got 15 days in jail and a reprimand. OK now were getting somewhere, so that hit the western news. With the 2nd unauthorized demonstration he got 30 days and a fine.
So as the new "opposition figure", Navalny's job was to get into jail, to make some western news. Follow that reasoning throughout his whole career, and it always makes sense with the circumstances. He is a figure like Juan Gerardo Guaidó, but with different job opportunities. But he was still on salary.
I would say he self-administered something given to him, to get into Germany, and then some fishy trace chemicals were discovered, somewhere down the line. No Doctor at Charité would sign off on any poisoning.
Then after disobeying his probation terms, why did he go back to Russia? Clearly, he had to get into jail to keep his salary coming. Then some of his embezzlement came to light, (or was already known), and his jail term mushroomed.
Then what happened to get him back into the news??? I don't know, but he was on a perpetual chemical diet for years, and who knows what the side effects or interactions between drugs are going to be? In this case, a brain hemorrhage. That's a worthy event, so the salary was transferred to his wife.
It is just my fantasy story, so don't try to verify it.
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Fantasy or not, it is a most plausible description of the situation.
I still owe you a reply to your previous comment. You have to forgive me, for I am on the road and quite busy. I can hardly keep up with my weekly posts. I will only be back home in mid May
Of course I'll be around in May too. No need for me to be grumpy.