The West capitalizes on Navalny’s death, while remaining defiantly silent on the cases of Julian Assange and American journalist Gonzalo Lira.
The manner in which Alexei Navalny was hunted down by the regime of Vladimir Putin, resulting in his death, is “vulgar” for human rights and categorically condemned. However, the full exploitation of Navalny’s death by the West raises questions about its thinking Western citizen.
- But let’s start with an admission:
With a “wave” of killings going on for years against Putin’s opponents, both in Russia and abroad, even if Navalny’s death was accidental, few would believe it.In other words, we have the paradox, that the death is charged to the Putin regime, he has no active participation in it. And this “charging” takes place both within Russia and apparently internationally, even almost entirely in the West.
Let us clarify, however, that this impression cannot be attributed to an attempt to slander Putin in particular and Russia in general, but has a solid background from two sequences of events.
1. The first is a series of crude in practice murders, carried out in the most obvious way, against persons who have made the mistake of seriously “disturbing” Putin’s perception. Let us recall, for example, the journalist Anna Politkovskaya who was murdered in 2006, the former agent Alexander Litvinenko who died martyrdom after being poisoned by polonium in London, the politician Boris Nemtsov who was executed in Moscow in 2015, at the time protesting the conflicts in Ukraine with the Russian-speaking separatists. , apparently Yevgeny Prigozhin, who was killed last year in a plane crash inside Russia, a few months after he had planned a coup against his benefactor and “author”, the president of Russia. With the crime in all cases being cold-blooded murder, with no trial, no investigation, no defense, no intervening rule of law.
2. The second sequence is that of the deaths of various Russian oligarchs, as well as members of their families, and those related to them, which has begun after the invasion of Ukraine. Suicides, falls, murders by strangers, all together, theoretically separate from each other, but a real “statistical outbreak”, which reminds more of a purge of former Kremlin elites and certainly not an epidemic of bad luck.
In addition to all this comes the death of Navalny, who is clearly a “useful dead”. First and foremost in the Putin regime: Why this? Because domination and through deafening terror (but not exclusively like this), is a political practice that needs confirmation, regular exemplification, visible demonstration.
- Heads of state from across the West rushed to condemn Russia and Putin for the death of a politician with little appeal in Russian society.
Demonstrations are being organized all over the world with the blessings of governments, while in monotonous media of the collective West, hymns are being written about Navalny while condemning Russia, without the conclusion of the forensic examination on the so-called activist yet.
Politician of 2% in Russia
Navalny was largely unknown in Russian politics and society. Navalny was a fringe figure in the opposition who garnered barely 2%. Putin was not afraid of him. One could say that it served the Russian president that the West saw Navalny as his main opposition.
Navalny, in addition to his court adventures and convictions for fraud, had worked with the NATO intelligence agency Bellingcat and had gone through the Yale World Fellow program, a CIA-sponsored regime change “educational” project. No Western media reported that Navalny was an unrepentant racist who compared immigrants to cockroaches and rotten teeth.
In the US the media presents his death as a shocking tragedy, while at the same time they remain silent if they do not already support the ongoing prosecution of Julian Assange.
The death of the American journalist in Ukrainian prisons went unnoticed in the US
They are also completely silent on the ill-treatment and death of American journalist Gonzalo Lira in Ukrainian prisons. Of course, Lira’s death on January 24, 2024 in Ukrainian prisons after an eight-month sentence for supporting Russia’s military actions, is not “useful” for the Biden administration.
It worked so shamelessly that the Democratic administration attempted to link Navalny’s death with financial aid to Ukraine and the need for it to be approved quickly.
The frauds of the “freedom fighter”
Navalny was widely touted in the West and the media as the “main freedom fighter” in Russia. However, he was imprisoned several times not for his political struggle, but for ordinary financial fraud, non-compliance with court decisions and violations of the criminal code.
- In 2014, Navalny and his brother were convicted in the case known as “Yves Rocher”.
- The case against the Navalny brothers was initiated at the request of a private foreign company, not a Russian one.
- Having created a virtual company, the brothers embezzled tens of millions of rubles, for which his brother Oleg was sentenced to 3.5 years in prison, as was Alexey, but on condition.
- At this point, Alexei Navalny already had another conviction.
- As an adviser to the governor of the Kirov region, Navalny embezzled 1.5 million rubles through his other shell company. The sentence was 5 years suspended. Thus Alexey became the only person in Russia with two suspended sentences.
- According to the decision, the convict had to not change his place of residence and to present himself for control at a police station 2 times a month. However, the “leader” of the opposition has repeatedly ignored these conditions.
- In 2020 alone, Navalny violated this status 6 times. Such violations could result in the term being substituted for actual jail time.
- It was during this period that the scandal was organized with his poisoning and medical treatment in Berlin, far from Russian prisons.
- In August 2023, Navalny was sentenced again, this time to 19 years in a special regime penitentiary, despite the fact that the charge called for 20 years in prison. He was found guilty of creating an extremist community.
- The investigation found him guilty of defamation of a veteran of the Great Patriotic War (World War II), public appeals for extremism, restoration of Nazism, involvement of minors in the commission of acts dangerous to life, creation of a non-profit organization that violates the rights of citizens , financing of extremism, etc.
- Navalny was sent to Siberia, where he was forgotten by his supporters.
- It is not clear how Putin could be … “bothered” by a prisoner in faraway snowy Siberia, whose secrets, including political ties to Russia’s enemies and all kinds of financial fraud, had long been exposed, and whose organization has long since been forgotten not only by the Russian public, but also by the most ardent “freedom fighters” in the West.
The truth must be sought in cui bono, that is, in who benefits from his death
Since the escalation of the conflict in Ukraine, Navalny was already a political corpse. The United States has had the opportunity to trade its hero for many years.
Biden and Putin discussed such an option in 2021. However, Washington was not interested in it, because Navalny’s main card would have to be played in Russia.
Fully subservient to Western interests, Navalny could play a role against Russia at a pivotal moment, and his death came at the most appropriate time.
Elections will be held in Russia in exactly one month, and support for the current president continues to grow alongside the ongoing Russian advance on the Ukrainian front.
Therefore the narrative of the “unfortunate political prisoner in Siberia who fell victim to the terrible totalitarian regime” seems to favor the West entirely.
