Dear Banjo,

Masha Gessen writing on Alexei Navalny's death in
The New Yorker tells us that:

"Alexei Navalny spent at least a decade standing up to
the Kremlin when it seemed impossible. He was jailed
and released. He was poisoned and survived. He was
warned to stay away from Russia and didn't."

"He was arrested in front of dozens of cameras, with
millions of people watching. In person he was defiant and
consistently funny. For 3 years his jailers put him in
solitary confinement, cut off his access to and arrested
his lawyers. They piled on sentence after sentence, sent
him all the way across the world's largest country to
serve out his time in the Arctic and still when he
appeared on video in court, he laughed at his jailers."

"He faced down the might of one of the world's cruelest
states and the vengeance of one of the world's cruelest
men. His promise was that he would outlive them and
lead what he called the Beautiful Russia of the future."

"On Friday, they killed him. He was 47 years old."

Masha Gessen is an acclaimed Russian journalist and
author of ten books of non-fiction. A long-time
resident of Moscow. She now lives in New York.

"It's worth a read."
- Probably only if you want to taint your ability to reason with a little more bs sorry Foxy.

For all we know he may have killed himself for the cause, knowing that he would spend his life in a Russian prison anyway.
Either that or he took too many Covid booster shots.

Russia won't mourn him.
You may get a small odd protest here and there and talk of conspiracy for a few weeks, but the Russian people will move on.
He won't be remembered for achieving anything in Russia.
Just a foreign agent that wanted to destabilise and balkanise the country for the West.

The west cares more about Russian Alexei Navalny than US citizen Gonzalo Lira,
- who himself was tortured and died in a Ukrainian prison for speaking the truth.

"timing of Navalny's assassination"
"The facts speak for themselves"

You pair are full of it, what facts?
You're speculating, bloviating hot air up each others sphinkters...
We don't even know how he died but somehow you pair have all the inside knowledge,
- like Putin himself called you both to give you the inside scoop and his personal confession.

No wonder this country is so full of crap.
- It's because the people themselves are full of crap.

http://nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/ny-fraud-case-damages-pay-millions-judge-angoron-rcna135283

A judge fines Donald Trump more than $350 million, bans him
from running businesses in New York for 3 years.

The state Attorney General's office said that when factoring
in pre-judgement interest, the amount exceeds $450 million.

Macleans - a Canadian magazine had an interesting article
on the disturbing parallels between Donald Trump and
Vladimir Putin.

They pointed out that Trump more than admires Putin. He
resembles Putin.

They give as examples Trump's disdainful attacks on his
opponents. Trump's promises of renewed national glory.
The manipulation of the media. The appeal to the public's
basest fears.

It's pointed out how both men obsess over even the
mildest criticism. Both like to revel publicly in their
so called virility. Both focus exclusively on outcomes
and slogans rather than genuine policies.

We can only hope that in the United States there are
enough legal safeguards to protect the nation from
wannabe dictators like Trump. For Russia it's too late.