Navalny died because he ran for office against a murderous dictator who refused to give up his position.
Two days following the internationally celebrated holiday, Valentine’s Day, it was announced that Russian dissident and outspoken critic of Vladimir Putin, Aleksei A. Navalny, died in a frigid, high-security Siberian gulag. No red roses for his wife of 24 years, Yulia, and no Alenka chocolate bars for his two children, Daria, 23, and son, Zahar, 15.
Peter Baker, Chief White House correspondent for the New York times, reported that “Navalny passed messages to his visiting lawyers to post on social media. His most recent Instagram post was on Wednesday—Valentine’s Day—and it was a message to Yulia: We may be separated by ‘blue blizzards and thousands of kilometers,’ he wrote, ‘but I feel that you are near me every second, and I keep loving you even more.’”
In stark contrast, Tucker Carlson engaged in a sordid dialog with the Russian dictator a few days ago. He “defended his interview with President Vladimir Putin, saying that ‘leadership requires killing people.’” This interview was no doubt, lovingly soaked up by cultish MAGA sycophants.
We’ve heard the alarming, and all too often spoken mantras: ‘We the people are pissed off! . . . We [truly] think a dictator can fix all that’s wrong in the USA. . . and [OMG]: F@#k Biden.’ How should we respond to these crude, gun-loving liberty thieves?
Mr. Navalny was a selfless, determined individual who survived at least one attempt on his life—a poisoning in 2020 with the toxic nerve agent, Novichok. Many of us celebrated his will to live when he was taken to Germany for life-saving medical treatment. He could have lived the remainder of his life in exile, but returned home to resume the fight for a fair and democratic Russia. He simply wanted to make Russia “a normal country”. Sadly, he didn’t have a chance.