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  @Patriot-#1776Constitution from Washington  commented…2yrs2Y

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…  Read more

  @9CJ6CB6 from Virginia  commented…2yrs2Y

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-#1776Constitution from Washington  commented…2yrs2Y

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.

  @9CJ6CB6 from Virginia  commented…2yrs2Y

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-#1776Constitution from Washington  commented…2yrs2Y

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.

  @9CJ6CB6 from Virginia  commented…2yrs2Y

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.

  @Patriot-#1776Constitution from Washington  commented…2yrs2Y

In that case, you still have to assume he's extremely stupid, because his timing could not have been worse, if indeed he committed the act he is alleged to have.

  @9CJ6CB6 from Virginia  commented…2yrs2Y

All he needs is fear, whenever he feels he is losing grip on power, as all dictators do, they tend to create public unrest and fear, then turn the tables of their worries against themselves.

  @Patriot-#1776Constitution from Washington  commented…2yrs2Y

Which is another way of saying you think he's really stupid, a fatal assumption.

  @9CJ6CB6 from Virginia  commented…2yrs2Y

I’m saying that in a country where near-dictatorship is all they’ve known, Putin would know well that fear is an extremely useful tool. It may be something entirely different than what we both think, I’m just saying I view the possibility that he’s the problem as a much higher concern.

  @Patriot-#1776Constitution from Washington  commented…2yrs2Y

And that's supposed to be an argument that he killed Nalvany...?

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