Putin is trying to kill Alexei Navalny again - and this time he may succeed.

Biden should offer Navalny asylum in the United States. We get Alexei, they can keep Snowden.

If only, R1.

When he was "on trial" and drawing those hearts on the glass for his wife, I thought: this guy is either crazy or tough as hell, to be that unbothered. He looked James Bond cool.

Fuck Putin for what he's done and doing to this guy. I hope Parkinson's eats you up, Vlad! 🖕🏽

Severe sanctions are called for immediately.

Navalny knows he's already won, r2. He is playing the long game with his life on the line. He knows what he's doing.

He is stone cold done with Putin's bullshit and doesn't GAF.

If you're the praying type, pray for Mr Navalny's health and protection.

If you're not the praying type, think of Mr Navalny with compassion and gratitude. One man with courage makes a majority.

Navalny reportedly is "near death." Hopefully, VladimirPutin will soon follow, the evil fuck.

R1, Navaly is much braver than that piece of shit, Snowden.

"Navalny is on a hunger strike" is Russian disinformation for "Putin is having Navalny starved to death."

If Navalny dies, Russia goes into a absolute CHAOS! Putin must have a God complex to not realize that.

Dear President Biden: Please nuke the Russian Fascist fuckwad.

And please strap Trump to the warhead. TIA.

Would anyone care if we bombed 'Russia' (or whatever it's called this week) into oblivion?

R10: Russia, yes. Nuking Putin, no.

It pisses me off that the world isn't stepping in to save Navalny.

Alexei's daughter:

This is murder in slow motion before our very eyes.

Navalny would make a great President. Putin is a piece of shit, just like our previous orange President. I hope someone is brave enough to put a bullet in his head.

Biden needs to make a statement about navalny.

I heard one report that the prison was having other prisoners bring small portable grills near Navalny and grill chicken to try and make him stop his hunger strike.

Navalny is unhinged. Why the fuck did he go back to the shithole Motherland? Inexplicably crazy!

Alexei Navalny is a one of those rare truly brave individuals, like Mahatma Gandhi, Aung San Suu Kyi, Liu Xiaobo, MLK Jr, Nelson Mandela, and Jesus of Nazareth, who are willing to die for their convictions. Navalny loves his country and his people, and he is ready to die in his fight for Russia's liberation from Putin's fascist oppression. Vladimir Putin is making Navalny a martyr, and Navalny's death will be the flashpoint that will lead to Putin's downfall.

He is as good as dead. Sadly, he didn't stay out when he had the chance. He chose to return, even with the knowledge that he would be killed. I guess he hopes that if he dies, the country will overthrow Putin. Messiah complex.

[quote] Messiah complex

Ironically, the ones who think of themselves as Jesus are the evil oppressive thugs like Putin and Trump who seek autocratic control, the suppression of their political enemies even through violence, the institution of draconian laws, and unconditional loyalty and abeisance. Of course, they are the furthest thing from a Messiah.

n a video posted on Navalny’s YouTube channel his deputies Leonid Volkov and Ivan Zhdanov said Navalny’s health had deteriorated so dramatically that a mass public display was the only way to save him. Volkov urged citizens to gather at 7pm on Wednesday in squares across the country.

The appeal sets up a showdown between Navalny’s followers and Vladimir Putin, who is due to deliver his annual state of the nation address at the same time. In January the Kremlin used brutal force to break up pro-Navalny street protests, with thousands of people arrested.

“Have you ever seen with your own eyes how a person is murdered? You’re seeing it right now,” Volkov said. He added: “If we don’t speak up now, the darkest times for free people are at hand. Russia will descend into total hopelessness.”

Biden's national security adviser has said that there will be consequences if Navalny dies but what?

[quote]"We have communicated to the Russian government that what happens to Mr Navalny in their custody is their responsibility and they will be held accountable by the international community," national security adviser Jake Sullivan told US media.

"In terms of the specific measures that we would undertake, we are looking at a variety of different costs that we would impose and I am not going to telegraph that publicly at this point, but we have communicated that there will be consequences if Mr Navalny dies," he added.

[quote] Navalny's death will be the flashpoint that will lead to Putin's downfall.

From your lips to Biden’s and Natos ears.

Sad situation, hopefully this is the beginning of the end for Putin.

AGREE r18!!!

Meghan McCain is losing her shit on Twitter over this. I don’t know what she expects Biden to do.

Meghan WHO? Fuck that dumb bratty bitch!

He's lost 50kg in 3 weeks.

That's 110 pounds.

I emphasize with Navalny's predicament, but some of the commentary from the punditry is way over the top.

[Qupte] BRhodes: It’s hard to capture the profound sadism and broad ramifications of slowly killing [bold] your most powerful and popular opponent [/bold] in front of the entire world. What Putin is doing to Navalny is a defining moment of our times and people must not look away.

Listen, they've done public polling in Russia from non state organizations and with Putin removed from the equation, Navalny is still not the most popular replacement. He polls in the same category as Jill Stein. Hopefully, someone who can form a bit more of a mandate than 5% can replace Putin. Navalny isn't that person.

"Hunger strike."

Here's a very good article that explains why Navalny is such a dangerous thorn in Putin's side.

Excerpt:

[quote]Tens of thousands of Russians across more than 100 cities took to the streets on Saturday to demand Navalny’s release. According to one poll, four out of 10 of them had never demonstrated before. A record 4,000 protestors were detained. Even as the police warned against attending the unsanctioned demonstrations and the temperature fell to -58 degrees Fahrenheit in some cities, Russians staged their largest protests in at least three years. The show of support and Navalny’s newfound recognition is Russia’s biggest political development of the year, and the anger beneath it could bubble and reverberate for months, even years to come, with parliamentary elections and a presidential race looming.

R1 You think we didn’t? Gosh, some people on this site are so fucking dense.

He could have gotten asylum in any country of his choice. He could be living it up now in a high paid job at Harvard, or in any think tank, or even just live off of the rich and powerful as a little pet project of these.

He went back to Russia because he is fighting for something bigger than himself. He knew what he was getting into. Regardless of what happens now, he is a hero. One day, he will have a street named for him in every major Russian city. That is worry more than his safety to him. He is fighting for his country and his people.

How is it possible to lose 50kg in 3 weeks? That doesn't seem possible. While this isn't research... on the show naked and afraid, where the contestants go 21 days with almost no food, they lose at most 25 lbs. And they are walking around and moving and exerting energy and burning calories. I don't know that you can lose 30+ lbs a week from not eating.

[quote]Even as the police warned against attending the unsanctioned demonstrations and the temperature fell to -58 degrees Fahrenheit in some cities, Russians staged their largest protests in at least three years.

I can't even imagine what it might be like to protest in -58° F weather. But this demonstrates dramatically the resolve of an oppressed people. Today, protests. Tomorrow, they'll be Marie Antoinette-ing Putin's fat head in Red Square.

Very dumb move to let him die. Only turns him into a martyr and in death he will be bigger than he was in life.

Putin regularly kills popular adversaries and nothing comes of it. Iron fist.

Revolution will only come if enough Russians don't have enough money to live on. The delays in paying pensions looks more dangerous to Putin than Navalny's death to me.

R36, most can't name those other ones. Navalny is the highest profile one and social media is a huge weapon.

America needs to stay out of this. There's human rights violations taking place right here at home and nothing is done about it.

We need to get our own house in order first.

Let Russia deal with their own problems, there's nothing we can do about what's going in Russia.

Meghan McCain claims to be a low tax small government Republican. But she wants the US government to get involved in something taking place in another country halfway across the world? That wouldn't be small government, that would be big robust government. Something she as a conservative Republican is supposed to hate right?

We need to fix our own problems her in America first, seriously.

Let Russia handle they're own shit.

^ oh, dear.

[Quote] most can't name those other ones.

Because the American media largely doesn't report on them. There is a strong communist party in the country and yet you'd never hear US corporate media talking about that as a replacement since that would run counter to their financial interests.

This is such a stupid move from Putin. People will revolt if Alexei dies.

Russians seem spooky.

The ones in NYC seem medicaid/medicare fraudster-y

R33, Navalny hadn't fully recovered from that polonium attack when he returned to Russia and was imprisoned by Putin.

His internal organs are still compromised and his body is unable to process food as it used to. Also, from what I understand, radioactive poisons like polonium affect your one density.

He's losing bone density, muscle density and is probably pretty dehydrated.

Walking dead.

Vengeance is mine saith the Lord.

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been moved to a prison hospital, where the authorities say his condition is "satisfactory".

He has been on hunger strike for 20 days, complaining of inadequate medical attention. He is now in Vladimir, a city 180km (112 miles) east of Moscow.

The FSIN prison service says he is being examined by a doctor daily and he has agreed to take vitamins.

Yikes! Navalny is not dead yet, but those who are trying to save him are dropping like flies.

^^ where is the info on the doctors who died? I find only info re the covid doctors falling out windows.

Navalny is kinda sexy. Or was.

He needs to get better and put his weight back on. He is the sexiest political leader, bar none.

When Putin dies we need to invade Russia and take it over and end this ongoing, never ending shit for good.

What a fabulous idea.

R54 - unfortunately, the whole country is composed of sociopaths and cons who think smiling is a weakness. Culturally, they're just fucked.

Miming for his wife from the dock displayed pure charisma