As almost all of you are aware on 2/16/24 Alexei Navalny, who crusaded against official corruption and staged massive anti-Kremlin protests as President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest foe, died in the Arctic penal colony where he was serving a 19-year sentence, Russia’s prison agency said. He was 47.
Right from the beginning let me be clear … I am not a Putin backer. Navalny and Putin have been enemies for a very long time, and the presumption by many is that Navalny was murdered and that Putin was responsible. In actuality at this point we do not know what actually happened to Navalny, and we may never know. It is common knowledge that Navalny and Putin were political enemies, and most of us would agree that it is pure evil for anyone in politics to physically go after one’s political enemies. Certainly, if it is true that Putin was responsible for Navalny’s death, then this is the lowest an individual can go.
However, what about going after one’s political enemies by attempting to put him/her in jail on trumped-up charges? What about attempting to bankrupt a political enemy by fining him/her a ridiculous amount for a trumped-up fictitious crime? While I would never try to equate murder with jailing or financially ruining a political opponent, nonetheless both of these would also be judged as pure evil.
Speaking of trumped-up charges for trumped-up alleged crimes, isn’t this exactly what Joe Biden and his intermediaries are trying to do to his political opponent, Donald Trump? Is there a difference between what an intermediary allegedly did to Putin’s political opponent, Alexei Navalny, and what Biden’s intermediaries are now doing to Biden’s political opponent, Donald Trump?
2/23/24