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I’ll never understand why he intentionally let himself be captured by Russia. The outcome was inevitable.

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He is so notorious because he was willing to selflessly put himself in the frontline to prove a point.

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That doesn’t make any sense, but okay.

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Martyrdom. Navalny knew what it would mean to return; he also knew the risk of not returning (constantly trying to avoid shitty assassination attempts with collateral damage).

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The only thing not making sense is how you’re not understanding the concept.

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Basically he gambled that Putin will die before him.

Well, that didn’t work out as planned for him.

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A regime like Putin’s is stable until it suddenly is not. Russia has a lot of dark times ahead of it.

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Russians honestly are mostly waiting for those times; chaos is frightening, but stable decline into a dystopia is even worse.

Besides, keeping on with “stable” regime means losing many, many lives; possibly way more than a radical change can entail. But that depends on who and how comes to power.

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Unlike the US, right?

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That would depend on your next president. Personally from an outsider view I hope it’s not trump again.

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Same. I worry about the complacency of voters though. People are unhappy with Biden, I think more on their perceptions of him rather than his record. Although his support of Israel is not helping.

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maybe, maybe not. Completely irrelevant in this discussion either way.

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Hopefully he disappeared because someone thinks he might make for a good replacement of someone in the future, but more likely they finally tortured him to death and destroyed his body so he can’t become a martyr.

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Be careful what you wish for, he’s more hard line than Putin. War in Ukraine? He thinks Russia isn’t sending enough troops, and he wants all of Ukraine. Way worse for LGBTQ+ rights than Putin, and that’s not easy to do. He almost makes Putin look like a human rights activist.

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You got any sources for that or did it just spill out of your ass?

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Disappointing.

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Lame.

The catholics would have sentenced his corpse.

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And the Mormons are baptizing them. With or without the body or consent.

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What catholics bro what are you smoking

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Look up the Cadaver Synod. He’s smoking historical facts.

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Yeah but why would they do it to him? He is no catholic and there aren’t many Catholics in Russia.

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Any possibillity this could be the final spark before the powder keg detonates?

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It’s doubtful.

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I wish he stayed in Germany, why the hell did he return?

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Hard to effect positive change in a country you’re not in

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There has been so many “final” sparks, i lost hope already

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Sorry internet friend 😢 Do you live there or are you referring more to it like I am?

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Live here, unfortunately

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