WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Donald Trump, who drew criticism as U.S. president for his praise of Russian leader Vladimir Putin, made his first public comment on the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny on Monday in a social media post that cast no blame. "The sudden death of Alexei Navalny has made me more and more aware of what is happening in our Country," Trump wrote, appearing to link the death to his own political troubles. It was not clear what similarities Trump was trying to draw with Russia's most prominent opposition leader.
yeah the last few days have been an excellent example of manufactured consent. we pretend like our free press is trying to get the truth on the ground… yet nearly every single article I’ve read about the death of Navalny only mentions that he was a “democratic dissident” and critic of Putin. That he is a “symbol of hope” for Russians who don’t support the Putin regime
Paints him as some sort of martyr revolutionary, a Russian MLK Jr
When in reality this guy founded an ethnic nationalist organization and there are pictures and videos of him marching next to swastikas
this whole ordeal shows how heavily manipulated our media is. it’s sick
Could you please provide some sources for this? This is the first time I am reading about this side of Nalvany.
Make sure you read to the end of that article. Nevalny himself (NPR interview, maybe?) admitted that he has courted the far right as well as the left in his bid to expose corruption within the Russian system and gain enough support to attempt to topple the Putin regime. He is unapologetic about it as he feels his intent (to clean up Russia and push for democracy) justifies his acceptance of all Russians as fellow countrymen. Like most people seeking power, his path is not pure and his antagonists will use that to poison any positive message he presents.
that’s putting it lightly. calling all muslims “cockroaches” and calling for the deportation of all immigrants it’s exactly “courting the far right” he got kicked out of his party for being too far-right extremist and founded a nationalist organization right after. we can call that “courting the far right” or we can call that “being an instrumental leader of the far right”
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And Karl Marx was an antisemite… your point?
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And I thought communists were supposed to be the tide that raises ALL ships.
It’s too bad Karl didn’t see the Jews as being included.
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i’m pretty sure this sub is heavily manipulated by some sort of astroturfing bot net. mostly because it seems like a word for word echo of /r/politics and we know that sub is heavily manipulated
so i just hope some real people see this and re-evaluate their positions. one guy at least seemed genuinely curious and wasn’t aware. so that’s something, at least.
Dude… this community biases towards far left.
It’s a neoliberal type of left. Basically establishment DNC. You know, the type to ask your pronouns before they launch a bomb with a pride flag on it at brown people.
Regardless, it’s still heavily manipulated. My ex-gf worked for DNC and participated in these types of “outreach campaigns”.
Don’t take anything you read online at face value
LOL - Nope. If there were a bot manipulating it all it would sure as hell make MY life easier… ;)
ok. for one, read the wikipedia page but i suggest reading one that was edited before he died just because after he died there’s been a lot of changes
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alexei_Navalny&oldid=1189517416#2011_parliamentary_election_and_protests
some bits to back up what i said
He was behind the 2006 Russian Nationalist march
This was essentially a giant protest against immigrants. There were many neo-nazis including people holding swastikas. if you look around long enough, you’ll find a find of navalny there with some swastikas behind him. i can’t find the video right now but i found some images of the russian march which should be enough to show there were neo-nazis there
please see following images i’ve placed into an imgur album: https://imgur.com/a/m5JQxIH
he founded this organization: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Russian_Liberation_Movement
National Russian Liberation Movement, which made anti-immigrant its main policy. During this period of time he would make certain statements like
“muslims are cockroaches that need to be exterminated” “immigrants are like cavities, you need to pull them out” etc
here’s an article that goes more in depth: https://jacobin.com/2021/01/alexei-navalny-russia-protests-putin
while it’s true that the Russian regime has illegally restrained him - they arrested him, tried to poison him, and ultimately killed him - but he was still a neonazi
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56181084
Many have this delusion that the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
The enemy of my enemy is my enemy’s enemy. Nothing more, and nothing less.
Tell that to all the new friends of the Houthi.