[Timber Rattler]

Another FReeper asked the other day who would replace Putin if he was overthrown, suggesting that the successor would be even worse. That's not necessarily true. This man here, Alexey Navalny, has been fighting Putin politically inside Russia since at least 2011, when he was first arrested for protesting (wait for it)...ELECTION FRAUD. He became such a political threat to Putin that Putin first tried to kill him with the standard poison attack, and when that failed, just concocted some phoney-baloney charges to keep him locked up in jail.

Russian opposition leader Navalny faces decades behind bars as new trial starts

So here he is, the obvious successor to Comrade Putin, if he is ever removed from office (one way or the other), or simply sheds his earthly coil.

[JonPreston]

10,000 Ukrainian KIA since the start of the counter-counteroffensive you cheered for. There is innocent blood 🩸 on your hands.

[Right_Wing_Madman]

Thanks. I just got more stupid after reading this.

[McGruff]

“Since June 1, even the radio has been turned off in my cell. I can’t see other people, and when I do I’m not allowed to talk to them”

And we should belief anything he says?

[Pete Dovgan]

“Another FReeper asked the other day who would replace Putin if he was overthrown, suggesting that the successor would be even worse. That’s not necessarily true. “

I suggested that essentially. Because that’s historically how it’s gone for Russia. Respectfully, to take power, wield it, hold it, and direct Russia requires a specific skill set. Russia has changed, I mean it appears fundamentally different because of technology and informational access, but many of the skill sets needed still are required. Further, the job probably molds the person as much as the person can change the job. While we can agree the ‘next one might not be worse’ there is a reasonable probability that they will. “The Devil you know”

The United States needs to consider how far it’s going to push here. Why does all of Europe need to be NATO? Why do we have to ‘mess’ with governments in Eastern Europe if the co-exist with everyone else and are not a threat? Will any of these nations come to help the United States with an attack from the nation who is most dangerous to us? Regime change just hasn’t seemed to be inexpensive and effective for the United States as a whole. Will a Regime change in Russia be worth it?

I may not like Putin. I certainly don’t support him. Hopefully the next leader of Russia will be good for Russians and friendly to Americans. The problem is that I am not sure if the Deep State picks them it will help. Like Obama and Soros going after Ukraine, it just gets a lot of innocent farmers killed, because an honest intelligent will find blame on both sides of the current conflict.

If I have to pick a side in all this, I pick the side of the everyday person or farmer, just trying to make a living.

[McGruff]

Or maybe this guy could take over if something happened to Putin.

Be careful what you wish for someone recently said.

[gleeaikin]

ping

[mac_truck]

Lol..Western puppet Navalny has a snowball’s chance in hell of becoming Russia’s next president.

[montag813]

Reading this guy's Wikipedia page, he seems like a likeable goofball, but pretty unserious. He would be a disaster as president.

[MeganC]

You upset the Russian rezidentura. Well done!

[CodeJockey]

Of course I have no way of confirming, but I would not be surprised if this guy is a CIA operative.

I mean if out own government here in the US told us that the 45th president of the United States was actually a Russian mole, then it's certainly plausible this Russian wanker is working with the CIA.

[Kazan]

Freep the Soros funded a-hole Navlany.

[Kazan]

How is that Ukrainian counteroffensive going, you old bastard?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMD6DstL6Wg

Update on the conflict in Ukraine for June 25, 2023:

- Ukraine’s offensive enters its 4th week with the line of contact relatively unchanged and having suffered immense losses;

- Western governments and commentators have been increasingly calling for more “wonder weapons” and even Western military intervention as prospects dim for Ukraine;

- The Wagner mutiny in Rostov, southern Russia was an ill-conceived gamble by Wagner’s figurehead Yevgeny Prigozhin;

- The crisis resolved itself within 24 hours with Prigozhin’s exile to Belarus and Wagner forces being fully integrated into the Russian military;

- Ukraine’s offensive potential persists, however, amid a war of attrition, territorial gains at the cost of men and machines brings Ukraine closer to defeat, not victory;

[AnonymousConservative]

Yeah, but Navalny got $29 million in crypto from the CIA. Which means he is an agent of Globohomo, and if he takes power, it is a matter of time before he Globohomos Russia, and you have trannies demanding to roll around the floor with people’s children. If Putin tried to poison him, I would assume it was out of pure patriotism.

There is a great case for Putin as the hero, opposed to the elites of the West who are destroying our nation.

I deal with the Stasi-like surveillance here every day. I know what has taken over our nation, and as far as I am concerned, Putin is not the enemy.