Everything is going Putin's way – his Tucker Carlson interview showed him to be competent, learned, and strategic, whatever your feelings about him, and rightly gained much attention. He just achieved a major victory in Ukraine. Everything is going Putin's way – and then, we're supposed to believe, he killed a guy who's been in prison for TWENTY-FIVE YEARS, who had no chance of beating him in the CHARADE that is Russian "elections"? And he waited till three weeks before the election to do it? And, on top of all that, he waited till Congress reached a deadlock over another 95 billion for Ukraine, and committed this act, which he doubtless knew could push many neocons over the edge and prolong his fight in Ukraine? That benefits him in no conceivable way, and I'm not the first to say this. However, it certainly does benefit the Congressional neocons, who have been funding Nalvany's party for years, it benefits Biden, who's looking for an excuse to send more fiat money to the foreign politicians. What do I think happened? Well, I don't know. But I suspect, and this is only a hypothesis – that he was killed by American agents, committed suicide, or was killed by Ukrainian agents, or anti-Putin guards. Putin did not do this – he's not that stupid. It's dangerous to assume he did with zero evidence.
@9CJ6CB63mos3MO
It’s also common for him to do things with seemingly no reason. Russia is knee-deep in espionage and lies, it’s likely he killed Navalny NOW for some matter related to the geopolitical crisis at hand.
@Patriot-#1776Constitution3mos3MO
What matter related to the geopolitical crisis? As is self-evident after any rational examination, it hurts him infinitely and benefits him not at all to kill a guy who's at TWO AND A HALF PERCENT in the polls and has been in prison for TWENTY-FIVE YEARS. There's no way on earth he killed him.
@9CJ6CB63mos3MO
He tried to before, and I’m not saying for 100% sure he did, but I have extreme distrust for the leader of the most corrupt nation on earth, which has espionage and geopolitical issues many of us will never know about.
@Patriot-#1776Constitution3mos3MO
I have extreme distrust of him too – but I also recognise that he is far from stupid. And clearly, killing Navalny would have been stupid and useless.
@9CJ6CB63mos3MO
Perhaps, but i find it likely that if he did do it, he meant it as a way of sending a message or communicating that Russia will stand against all dissidents.