Assassination of Boris Nemtsov
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He is a political prisoner however the west should really stop trying to set him up as some sort of savior.
The problem with Russia isn’t the politicians it’s the complete lack of any government institutions that facilitate even the slightest shred of collective decision making.
Russia now is more autocratic than the USSR ever was because the USSR at least had party politics and the massive bureaucratic machine that needed to be appeased.
Russia as a nation is utterly broken it’s far closer to North Korea than to say China.
And the worst thing is that I don’t see a way out for them and for us from all of this at all. Taking out Putin isn’t going to fix things it would be a bandaid at most.
Is the West doing that? I’ve literally never seen anything from Western government or media saying anything positive about his platform/program, what he offers Russia, or anything, only that (1) he’s Putin’s most popular opponent, and (2) Putin tried to murder him, and then threw him in prison.
The West has set him up as a symbol of Putin’s authoritarianism (well, mostly Putin did that, but the West highlights it), not as a savior.
European leaders, the media and plenty of wanna be political analysts on the internet are definitely skewing his story completely.
To me he is just another asshole that isn’t Putin, and whilst I can agree that his experience in prison and everything that led up to that including being poisoned might have finally knocked some sense into him but based on his actual political career in Russia I wouldn’t want him in any position of power.
The problem is that I don’t see a way to fix Russia that doesn’t include a massive war and a post war Germany like situation.
This isn’t about its people on an individual level many if not most aren’t different than you or me.
Collectively as a nation at this point it’s beyond redemption simply because how utterly broken it is on every level.
The USSR at least was driven by an ideology based on a universal political/social theory good bad it doesn’t matter.
Today I have no idea what Russia stands for and that’s the most dangerous situation I can think off because it means that nothing is off the table.
Russia is a nation that has been failing upwards for 2 centuries and it managed to fail upwards to the point in which it has a nuclear arsenal large enough to obliterate human civilization as we know it.
If you’ve heard of someone being a nominee was who didn't win, despite the 50-year non-disclosure rule, it's usually a fringe group with that disrespects the prize and the process and is desperate for attention, not a serious nominee or otherwise representative of the general view of the West.
Yeah, but that is exactly the point of this thread.
It is completely insane.
Oh it is!
I would just expect the same from any Russian president, really.
What the actual fuck?!
About 10000 Russian casualties so far in this invasion. They have no training, no air support, no fuel, nothing. Putin is sending all these people to their deaths believing a lie that the Ukraine people are nazis, while he is playing bunker bitch at home, afraid to even sit next to people in his own staff.
Not saying I agree, but that is the only coherent worldview I can from his speeches.