Support for Putin is extremely smoothbrain energy. Imagine simping a right-wing fascist autocrat just to own the libs.

I mean... who cares? This isn't going to lead to regime change in Russia, and even if it does... who cares? Putin is a right-winger, and it is hard to imagine a worse leader there.

Some :LIB: s on Chapo DOT Com DOT Chat:

2003 Iraq war was :cia:

2011 Libya was :cia:

Bolivia was :cia:

Zenz? :cia:

Navalny, who was let out to Germany during a pandemic while he was legally unable to leave the country due to court cases against him:

:geordi-no: :cia:

navalny is legit a fascist lol

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I'd be more willing to believe he's controlled opposition.

Are you saying he poisoned himself with novichok and fell into a coma on purpose? Lol

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Can you provide some links I can reference so I don't look like (too much of) a crank when telling the people on Tumblr encouraging donations to him about this?

I mean yes he's very obviously getting funding from America in at least some way, if that was your intent with this post. Doesn't make him worse than Putin tho. Not any different than the Ukraine thing, with the American foreign services and CIA funneling millions into it for about a decade before it finally went to the west's side. Still doesn't make Russia somehow the good guys. The only really annoying thing about it is when the news does the whole surprised thing when Russia retaliates to the west's actions and pretends it's a random first strike. Again, Russia still sucks and the groups breaking away from them are likely better off in the here and now for it anyways (like Ukraine). It just means the US are lying fucks desperately trying to get control of the entire earth in their hegemonic empire, which we all should have known anyways.

i'm sorry, but this post was clearly made by someone who has no idea of the inner workings and the political situation in russia

The dead giveaway is that Putin doesn’t miss. We’re supposed to believe that not only did the KGB fail to assassinate him

it's a wide misconception that modern day russian intelligence agencies are some extremely sophisticated professional organization

look no further than other attempted assassinations like that of vladirim kara-murza, that of the skripali family and many others, even in case of (un)successful assassinations the coverup is often ridiculous (have you seen the interview of the skripali's assasinators on russia today tv channel by maria simonian? it's honestly hilarious, go watch it regardless)

but Navalny coaxed his assassin to reveal the gameplan, and recorded it?? Come the fuck on.

i have to admit that this part does indeed seem ridiculous and i was pretty skeptical in the beginning, but even if you disregard this piece of evidence completely, you have the following circumstantially really damning evidence

• no investigation by the investigative committee of russia

• local police withholding evidence

• keeping navalny in the omsk hospital for a long period of time even though they are not equipped to treat such things

plus other things

and even if all of this shit is still somehow fake, i don't really care, the current regime is horrible and needs to change

This guy is unemployed, respectively, does not pay taxes.

he is still technically a lawyer and partly in charge of running fbk, if any of the above were illegal, trust me, the police would be hard at work trying to get him in prison for that

the "you can always trust a dishonest person to be dishonest" principle applies here very well, in the sense that you can always trust the russian authorities to investigate all of his legitimate crimes (if there are any)

Last year, he traveled abroad 13 times.

aaah, yes, the worst crime of them all, traveling abroad

Sometimes, abroad of Russia, Navalny prefers to travel by car with US diplomatic number plates.

source pls?

He regularly receives large amounts of bitcoins from unknown sources.

does either fbk or navalny himself have a btc address tho? could you link it pls?

He never submits Applications to the courts, the prosecutor’s office following the results of his “investigations”.

lmao that's literally all fbk does, that's the case with almost every investigation, fraudulent election etc, all of this info is either on the fbk or his own website

fbk literally has a special division dedicated to legal help to people being wrongfully detained, arrested etc on protests etc

he really does nothing

uuum, aside from leading the biggest opposition movement yeah, nothing significant

According to the results of its activities, not a single ruble has returned to the budget.

i'm sure if that's true because non-profits in russia do pay taxes, but also, that's not necessarily the point of his activities

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yes, he is (or used to be) a nationalist, a little racist and right learning in general, also a social democrat, but i would take him any day of the week over the current unjust, oppressive, poor, discriminatory regime under which millions of russians suffer constantly

idk I'm hoping the support navalny commands can break the putin stranglehold on power and allow russian political imagination to expand, thereby giving space to more leftist political projects (ignoring the communist party, they're nazbols). But what do I know

FSB not KGB.

He claimed that they poisoned his underwear, lmao.