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Navalny is going to die in Russian jail, like millions of people before him.

Russians don't care on average. They have been living under authoritarian regimes for many centuries, and are more or less OK with them.

No reasonable amount of outside pressure is going to stop it. Nuking Kremlin might do the trick but that amount of pressure is not reasonable, IMO.

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I do wonder what full economic collapse would do to Putin's Russia. Considering the worsening prospects for oil producers, we may see the economic context change.

Eventually, I think the economic collapse will cause the country to break up into smaller states. It already happened with USSR. In long term perspective, this might improve the situation with human rights. And that’s something that can be accelerated with international economic sanctions.

But I’m not sure this gonna help Navalny. For one, I don’t think he has enough time left. Another thing, when soviet forces retreated from western parts of the country in 1941, they killed hostages instead of releasing them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NKVD_prisoner_massacres

I agree, I don't think it will help Navalny. I assume he'll be dead within a few months, if he isn't already.

full economic collapse happened in Venezuela and it didn't loosen the authoritarian grip

Or Cuba, PRNK, ...

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