Admit it. The same people that rant about Putin and what happened to Navalny support the exact same things being done by the American Democrat political establishment against Donald Trump.
Yes, as we all know, the chief political rival to the American president was poisoned with novichok and could only be treated abroad. When he recovered and returned to the US, he was arrested on re-entry and put in jail -- mostly in solitary -- under brutal conditions in northern Alaska. When he was killed there, the government refused to let his family examine the body, and locked up everyone who tried to express sympathy and leave flowers in his memory. The "exact same things."
Sure, but shame on you for taking "opinion polls" in Russia at face value. The pollsters do what they can, but even before the war started, they were getting 90+ percent refusal rates; supposedly much higher now. And there are good reasons not to regard the 3 or 5% who do respond as either representative or truthful. Go see what e.g. the Russian sociologist Yekaterina Schulman says about this (now in exile in Berlin).
Admit it. The same people that rant about Putin and what happened to Navalny support the exact same things being done by the American Democrat political establishment against Donald Trump.
Yes, as we all know, the chief political rival to the American president was poisoned with novichok and could only be treated abroad. When he recovered and returned to the US, he was arrested on re-entry and put in jail -- mostly in solitary -- under brutal conditions in northern Alaska. When he was killed there, the government refused to let his family examine the body, and locked up everyone who tried to express sympathy and leave flowers in his memory. The "exact same things."
I was about to make the same point. You said it better.
Sure, but shame on you for taking "opinion polls" in Russia at face value. The pollsters do what they can, but even before the war started, they were getting 90+ percent refusal rates; supposedly much higher now. And there are good reasons not to regard the 3 or 5% who do respond as either representative or truthful. Go see what e.g. the Russian sociologist Yekaterina Schulman says about this (now in exile in Berlin).
Does this case not mirror that of Julien Assange? The latter was too sick in jail to attend his own trial this morning.