Old Polish saying

Navalny got poisoned for challenging Putin. How has he helped Ukraine?

You vicious Good Russian (TM). Condescending arrogant and violantly angry at being contradicted.

He insta blocked me.

I really can’t understand Russian logic. Leonid is ranting about poor Navalny’s feelings in his vicious life and death struggle with Putin. If he was a real threat and not an useful distraction, Navalny would be dead. I see a pretender to the throne, kept in a dungeon. He’s not going to become the Good Tsar (TM), he’s not a Mandela, more like the vicious patriot nationalist tsars and kings of yesteryear.

Update on date of publication

Team Navalny uses the naivete of Westerners including Europeans whose countries don’t neighbor Russia and American world viewpoint dichotomy (our friend or our enemy, enemy of my enemy is my friend) to manipulate their image of Navalny.

All they do is present Navalny as an enemy of Putin. Putin is made out to be a villain. Except Putin’s villainy is framed in his evil behavior towards Russians.

So Team Navalny logic is: Support Navalny because he opposes Putin who is evil towards Russians.

This unfortunately works with naive Europeans and Americans who make the mental jump to: ah, the guy fighting the bad guy must be good.

That’s not how it works. Especially in Russia. The guy fighting the bastard might turn out to be an even bigger son of a bitch. This happens time after time in Russian history.

It’s not Star Wars. Putin might be Palpatine but Navalny isn’t Luke.

Fascist imperialists like Navalny, war criminal mercenaries and fascist soldiers all prey on the basic pschological and emotional weakness of naivete when faced with Russian duplicity.

Tankies are the extreme victims of this naivete and dichotomy. They think USA bad, which it often is, therefore Russia, China, Iran and North Korea good. Absurdity.

Slavs and Balts just roll their eyes and reply to people like Leonid with anger and criticism, asking where’s Navalny’s sacrifice for them, not for rodina? Slavs and Balts don’t give him the benefit of the doubt and aren’t going to project their wishes on him. Because Russian rulers are invariably genocidal murderers or they’re killed by a genocidal pretender. No benefit of the doubt. No corruption-free Russia with a mighty empire conquering Europe and shooting people like me and my son in a forest.

This is how war criminals get rehabilitated

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Projection, reparations and Navalny

Westerners love to project onto other people, just like most cultures. This projection has terrible consequences. We think that somebody is ‘good’ because they oppose the ‘bad’. Whether the CIA and ‘our son of a bitch’ principle, Franco and the Greek colonels, the

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The Paratrooper - I'm just a poor boy from a poor family

Westerners too often think that a Russian who is anti-Putin is a hero. The enemy of my enemy is my friend fallacy. They’re ‘the good Russians’. This is true for nationalist Navalny and was true for the ‘good Germans’ i.e. war criminal Slav hating lebensraum anti-Semite warriors

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