Russia - threadbanned users in OP

Bill is spot on .. Yes to this me thinks?

However earlier today on BBC 5 Live Politico's Suzanne Lynch ( https://www.politico.eu/staff/suzanne-lynch/ ) was asked this very question. She said yes all day long EXCEPT there would need to be solid legal platform behind this for other future such events. She said they are working on this

You conveniently forget about Asange and Snowden. Former is rotting in prison and may aswell end up dead and later had to run away so he do not end up the same. Manning too and they all have to suffer because of what they believed.

We can go back and forth my point still stand, Navalny was a person with troublesome, outright racist past and that is being suppressed only because he tried to stand up to Putin.

I said it before: it's not enough for the Russians to be cold and ruthless. They have to be sadistic and cruel. It's like Putin not only wants to show he long since stopped caring about outside opinion, but actually revels in the condemnation.

I think he learned a lot from Assad in those years Russia propped up that regime.

It's not really being suppressed. It can be freely said. However, it doesn't have much to do with the current story, which is that Putin is murdering political opponents with little pushback. Some of these people may share many of Putin's standpoints, but just diverge on something he can't tolerate.

It's a message that should be shared around because it could be the thing that de-stabilises the Putin regime. If not, it can contribute to a wellspring of Russian discontent.

The comparison with Manning and Snowden doesn't really compute, because they divulged sensitive information. It's hard to think of a country where that doesn't carry at least some amount of legal jeopardy. I will say that Manning stayed and faced the music, whereas Snowden absconded to and has stayed in a certain country that now gives me some cause to doubt his commitment to a free and open society. There is a good argument to say their leaks were justifiable and an argument to say that some of their revelations compromised US security. Navalny, on the other hand, pointed out that Putin was Charles Haughey² in the corruption stakes. There was nothing that compromised Russian security in his findings, although a lot that potentially compromised Putin, and for that he was jailed and most likely murdered.

We've a bit of a ways to go in the West before repression is as bad as in Russia. We shouldn't let whataboutery distract us from seeing Putin for what he is.

Russki planes got the Covid vaccine. Simples. --some republican from America.

I fear the only way this war ends is if Trump get in, war will then be over, if Putin fails to stop, Trump did say he'd arm Ukraine to the teeth, so it's walk out of Ukraine Putin, or I'll drag you out like a bitch.

Interesting point in video, that the West recognizing Putin, is what is giving Putin legitimacy amongst the Russian people, and that for years, through many fake elections he has been recognized and allowed to act as President globally by the West.

I suppose if for arguments sake he says comes out with 95% votes for him and then he can go around and declare full mobilisation and state 95% of the people are with me and want me to do this. Probably feels at the beginning of his re-election he is at his most powerful and can get away with anything then (he is anyway but I say more so he can then) , also probably shows to the west, hey look I'm here the next 6 years and this is 6 years more that I will continue on in Ukraine. Are you the West when I ramp up everything more to take Ukraine after I win this election willing to go all out for the next 6 years.

It's a tinderpot , remember the march to Moscow,he needs to consolidate his situation or risk a revolt by the people and the army.