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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s exhausting to see Americans make the same mistake over and over. Just because someone opposes our enemy doesn’t mean that person will be better or deserves support!

Navalny was a white nationalist who believed in the superiority of ethnic Russians to all other groups. He openly supported Putin’s annexation of Crimea and opposed returning to Ukraine land that Russia had illegally taken. He compared immigrants to cockroaches who had to be stamped out and expelled. As he rose to power, he cultivated a Neo-Nazi following by putting out a steady stream of wildly racist videos. Even after he came to international attention and distancing himself from racism became politically expedient, he still refused to wholesale disavow the views he had expressed for years and did not repudiate his Neo-Nazi followers. Instead, he tried to lie and delete his videos.

Does this mean his murder was right? No. Should Putin be held accountable for his murder? Of course! But should we mourn Navalny as a great hope who would have led Russia in a better direction? Hell no. He would have been a disastrous leader for Russia and would have continued the Ukraine war, brought overt white nationalism into the mainstream, and maintained Russian ethnonationalism as state position.

See, e.g., https://www.bbc.com/news/...181084.amp and https://www.aljazeera.com...oppositio[/quote]
It’s the whole “murdered by the state” thing that people are most appalled by. But wow you were really waiting with bated breath to post this, like no one else knows this. [/quote]
I have a big problem with seeing a hateful neo-Nazi lionized merely because he was enemies with Putin. You should too. Raise your standards.[/quote]
““This is a stupid war which your Putin started," Navalny told an appeal court in Moscow via video link from a corrective penal colony in 2022. "This war was built on lies."
"One madman has got his claws into Ukraine and I do not know what he wants to do with it - this crazy thief."
That’s Navalny on Ukraine. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/who-was-alexei-navalny-what-did-he-say-russia-putin-death-2024-02-16/

For the rest of your weird ramble, including the accusation that he was a “neo nazi” I can find no evidence. So perhaps you too should raise your standards out of the Putin propaganda you’ve mired yourself in. [/quote]

There have been articles written about concerns with Nalvany ultra nationalist statements from years ago. 
https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-evolution-of-alexey-navalnys-nationalism
An article from the Atlantic from 2013
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/07/is-aleksei-navalny-a-liberal-or-a-nationalist/278186/

There was an also a whole controversy about Amnesty International naming Navalny as a prisoner of conscience then taking away that label because of previous comments that he made that were anti-immigrant/Muslim then giving it back. [/quote]

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