"Concerning Cui Bono or Occam's razor, you have not indicated any Cui Bono for the West as there is no benefit to the EU or US from his murder and the opportunity was zero as his only visitor before his death was his mother."
- Of course it benefits the West, just in propaganda value alone.
- Secondly it will allow new sanctions, new laws 'like the Magninsky act'
- It elevates Yulia Navalnaya as a hard-done-by widow - to an activist or spokesperson role.
- And who knows what else, but you're a fool if you see no benefit.
There was certainly no benefit to Putin a month before his election.
He's not going to win any elections or achieve anything else in jail.
And his mother was not the only person to see him.

Navalnaya had not visited him in 2 years, (was galavanting around with her new Russian boyfriend) but she did so on Feb 14, with 'medicine' and gifts a day before he died, then she headed straight to the Munich security conference standing by ready for her speech about his death.

"The Ukrainian air force claimed it has shot down 10 Russian warplanes in 10 days: nine of the Russian air force’s best Sukhoi Su-34 and Sukhoi Su-35 fighter-bombers and also a rare Beriev A-50 radar plane."
Yes, but Russia is bombing the shite out of everything and making advances on all fronts.

Yulia Navalnaya, widow of Alexei Navalny, steps forward to lead the Russian opposition – 3 points to understand
http://theconversation.com/yulia-navalnaya-widow-of-alexei-navalny-steps-forward-to-lead-the-russian-opposition-3-points-to-understand-224050

- Exactly as I said.

I'm not sure I said it on this thread or the thread in the main forum, but I definitely said it.
Maybe in the general forum somewhere, but I told you all she was being prepared to take his place.
Maybe someone else can confirm I stated it a week or so back

I told you all on another thread Navalny was in a Siberian Gulag, wasn't going to get out for 20+ years and was discredited in Russia, and that his wife was being positioned as a activist and spokesperson, but not necessarily a politician.
I told you that Navalny had no further usefulness for the West except for one last thing.
- Being dead.

Now I'm going to have to go sift through the threads to try and find where I said it.

From article:
"1. There’s a long history of women subbing for men
Widowhood was the main route American women took to becoming a member of Congress for decades, when they assumed their husbands’ seats, from the 1920s through the 1960s...
Women also often ascend in the political arena under tragic circumstances."

Yulia Navalnaya, widow of Alexei Navalny, tells European Parliament her husband's body was abused
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-28/yulia-navalnaya-widow-alexei-navalny-european-parliament/103524778

Now we're never going to bloody well hear the end of it;
- That's the motive.

It's 'The Scripals', with a political opponent.
- Navalny was worth more to the West dead than alive.
This is his last service to the cause.

Baldrick,

Give it a rest. Only Putin fanboys or the most delusional believe anything other than Putin had Navalny killed. Your arguments that the West killed him or that the US organised the Maidan overthrow are pathetic and have zero evidence. Any critic of the tyrant Putin is either imprisoned or killed.

As for the 500 new sanctions applied on the 2nd anniversary of the illegal and unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, these appear to be the most severe so far. Banks around the world (including China, India, UAE, etc) are closing all accounts associated with Russia or its allies. Ports are closing access to Russian ships and those uninsured ships. Putin's revenue is shrinking and his costs are ramping up.

I also see that the G7 is looking to unfreeze Putin's piggy bank of nearly $300bn to spend on sending ammunition, Missiles, tanks etc to Ukraine to kill Russians. With Sweden Joining NATO Russia's Baltic fleet is trapped, and Russia's border with NATO has nearly tripled.

Russia is losing this war.

Oops, we did it again another Su34 was shot down last night.

Russia can't replace these planes at anywhere near the rate they are being destroyed. What is the T55 version of the Su34?

Russia is losing this war.

Probably the Su-27 Frogfoot, workhorse of the RuAF.
Tough little bugger.
Though I'm not sure it's from the same era.
The older tanks you speak of are used as artillery pieces.
Russia is pumping out new and reconditioned tanks at a significant quantity now.

The Russian military industrial output has ramped up a whole lot since the start of the war,
If these RuAF losses are accurate
(and I say 'if' because I haven't seen footage of the burned out wrecks)
Then it doesn't matter too much anyway.
In the meantime the Russians are breaking the back of the Ukrainians will to fight and gaining territory right across the front line.

Imagine a fight with Mike Tyson.
The US are hoping Ukraine can stay on it's feet till November
But Mikes figured out how his opponent fights and is going to knock him out.

Trump is now the likely Republican Presidential nominee.
And he will direct his party to block any further military aid.

Ukraine couldn't win even if they called up all the NATO troops in Europe.
Their ammo and equipment has been depleted.

Macron suggested sending troops to Ukraine and the other Europeans all backed away.
It's over, Ukraine is being annihilated, and they deserve what they get.
This is what happens if you allow the US to fund right-wing NAZI nationalist opposition in your country and allow them to take power.