A Russian " " court " " on Friday issued its verdict in a new case against jailed opposition leader Alexey Navalny, convicting the politician of promoting “extremism” and extending his time in prison by 19 years, according to Russian state media and his own team.
Uh that seems like a pretty absolutist world view. You can simultaneously think that the invasion of Ukraine is terrible, and care that a Russian man is being jailed for nearly twenty years by a kangaroo court.
He’s a Russian politician, I could care less about what happens to him, especially after reading his previous views on Crimea.
I could care less
Ah so you do care at least a little.
I hate these Word Crimes!
To jail. Now!
I’m not calling you a liar, but maybe misinformed.
Russia’s prominent jailed opposition figure Alexei Navalny has lost an appeal against a nine-year prison term, but not before launching a scathing attack on the war in Ukraine.
Condemning Vladimir Putin’s war as stupid, he said it was “like your courts, built entirely on lies”.“You will suffer a historic defeat in this stupid war that you started. It has no purpose or meaning. Why are we fighting a war?” he said.
I believe the person that you’re replying to is talking about how Navalny is inherently a Russian Nationalist and had previously expressed support for the invasion of Ukraine. Also, of course he’s going to rail against the guy who’s unjustly imprisoning him and shit all over Putin’s invasion.
He’s against it now because it’s showing Russia as the alcoholic morons they are.
He said all that stuff in court right after the start of the war. Like, there are transcripts of it.
He supported the 2014 invasion, not the 2022 invasion. So he’s still garbage. He just stinks less.
I think him being concerned with the economics of a war rather than the ethics of it are telling. However here is a quote from Navalny in March. Seems like he is somewhat on a middle ground. Not sure what to think of him.
Navalny wrote that Ukraine’s borders are “similar to Russia’s—[they were] internationally recognized and defined in 1991.” All of the areas of Ukraine that the Kremlin has supposedly “annexed” are, by right and by law, still Ukrainian, including Crimea.Mar 2, 2023
Navalny advised Ukrainians not to deceive themselves: “Crimea will remain part of Russia and will never become part of Ukraine again in the foreseeable future”.
He also said that when he becomes president of the Russian Federation, he will not return the semi-island to Kyiv: “Crimea is what, a sandwich with sausage to be returned here and there?”, - Navalny asked.
Difficult to feel sympathetic towards someone who suggests annexed land land can be taken at will. But also hard to deny the punishments he faces from Putin are extremely heavy handed. Russia really needs a revolution that puts in place people who actually want to serve the people and become a productive democracy.
Revolutions never do that, because they’re started by wannabe-dictators or the military.
I think Navalny shouldn’t be in jail and is better than Putin. But he’s still a piece of Russian garbage.
He can still be much better than Putin and support Crimea 2014. Not a good option, but a less bad one, and one that is dangerous to Putin.
Also,
https://archive.org/details/VideoAlexeiNavalnyComparesMuslimsToCockroaches
Navalny isn’t a good “replacement” for Putin IMO.
Yeah
He’s better than Putin in that a turd sandwich is better than a firehose full of raw sewage to the face
But honestly, if someone put him in power, I’m 50/50 over whether he would just become the next Russian dictator
50/50? I feel like there’s a 90% chance they will be and I think that’s a conservative estimate.
Do you have a source?
At least a quick search on my side does not bring up anything in support of your statement.Edited post.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Navalny, who emerged as the most outspoken critic of President Vladimir Putin’s government before he was imprisoned, was already serving a nine-year sentence in a high-security prison about 150 miles east of Moscow for parole violations, fraud, and contempt of court.
“…By conducting this latest trial in secret and limiting his lawyers’ access to purported evidence, Russian authorities illustrated yet again both the baselessness of their case and the lack of due process afforded to those who dare to criticize the regime.”
Navalny faced a total of seven serious charges in the trial, including participating in and funding extremist activities, creating an NGO that “infringes on the rights of citizens,” involving minors in dangerous acts, and rehabilitating Nazism.
In April, Navalny said a separate proceeding had been launched against him stemming from the extremism case, in which he would stand accused of terrorism and be tried by a military court.
Daniel Kholodny, who used to work for Navalny’s YouTube channel, was also charged with funding and promoting extremism and was sentenced to prison on Friday, but due to the poor quality audio feed from inside the closed courtroom, there was confusion about how many years he was given.
Navalny was arrested in January 2021 immediately upon his return from Germany, where he spent five months recovering from a poisoning that he blamed on the Kremlin — a claim Russian officials have always denied.
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Damn shame. He would have been one hell of an upgrade over Putin.
Very similar behavior as what the Biden regime is doing to Trump.
Dumbest fucking thing I’ve read all week. Thank you for the lol.
