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Americans should be concerned about trespassers on January 6th being treated as political prisoners by OUR government & languishing in a DC jail for 3+ years. Similiar to our southern border crisis the government decides where our attention should be directed & it’s always at the atrocities abroad & never at what they’re doing at home.

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Its interesting how Americans couldn’t care less about other journalists and public figures; like Gonzalo Lira, Julian Assange, etc

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I was thinking about Gonzalito.

something of "outrage" missing there.

Thanks for getting the point in first.

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Indeed. We’re directed to care about a political dissident western forces used to foment problems in Russia, but absolute radio silence over the arrest and subsequent death in detention of an American journalist?

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What about the ‘Couts* Four’ in *Canada*? If you want political prisoners persecuted by an authoritarian regime to worry about. David McBride or Bernard Colaery in Australia?

* corrected

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We care, but the lying media makes it look like we don’t.

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Oh I know mate. I should have clarified, the Administration.

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Sadly, at this point my mind immediately goes to "Did we have him killed?" and "Do we benefit from this action, or does Putin?"

In this case, I don't like either answer.

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Good question. Navalny was not a threat to Putin politically if his polling numbers in Russia provided here are accurate. The axiom “never let a crisis go to waste” applies here. While the President and the press pretend to mourn his death on a human level, they couldn’t be more enthused about using it to further demonize Putin and by extension Trump. In a more bizarre twist, Biden also used it to scream at Congress for not approving more billions to prolong the extermination of Ukraine citizens. If only he cared about their lives as much as he did Navalny’s.

This administration and it’s hordes of press lackeys ask with a heavy dose of moral indignation and no awareness of irony, “can you imagine living in a country (Russia) where political opponents are imprisoned on trumped up charges?”

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DMang gives the most likely explanation of why Navalny died. Look at Biden's response. He could have just mourned the death of a journalist and talk about how brutal Russia/Putin are, but, instead, he uses this event to call for more funding for Ukraine, when support is waning, and more information is being let out about the Deep State role in fomenting this whole fiasco and tragedy for the Ukrainians and Russians who have died, like Navalny, as pawns of globalist schemes

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Feb 16, 2024
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Have you seen the video of him talking to the MI6 guy? Sounds like he was planning to do an insurrection!

Edit: If Putin wanted him dead, now is a terrible time to do it -- just like it was a terrible time for him to blow up Nordstream.

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Very hard to control for malnourishment, other inmates doing dirty deeds, and such things.

Or he had him offed, as some kind of counterpoint to letting Tucker Carlsson interviewing him.

Or he died long ago, but it wasn't made official until now.

Or he's alive and this some kind of deal or scheme.

It's Russia. Truth is what the boss tells you.

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Ask Boris "No Treaty" Johnson, Matt "Care Home" Hancock, Liz "Geography" Truss, or Neil "Algorithm" Ferguson. And the rest.

Truth is what your government makes up.

Thanks for the link.

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Feb 16, 2024
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Something about the land of the blind and the one-eyed man.....

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Curious that Navalny dies (accompanied by a chorus from our Free World media of prewritten obituaria) on the day that Avdeyevka falls to the Russians.

Burying Bad News...

as you mentioned, any inmate could have added a drop of "Novichok" (not from Porton Down, of course). Russia is a society far more open than we would love to imagine.

Navalny was a "Western Intelligence" asset until he got Life in Siberia, after which his days were numbered as a "Dead In Service" asset. Never let an opportunity go to waste?

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Epstein didn't kill himself.

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The latest from Russia sourced from Ukrainian , yes Ukrainian, intelligence was that Navanly died from a blood clot. They didn't enlighten me as to their sources and method so I am unable to determine the truth but it does seem an admission against interest which are often regarded as true.

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US is under military rule - see today’s Tucker — #74

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A typo — #75

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Biden regime was pretty much silent about US citizen Gonzalo Lira dying in an Ukrainian prison.

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Navalny had completely been forgotten and erased from memory over the last 1.5 years or so. Agree with Jordan about cheerleading Putin or Russia in general, but this makes zero sense to have him killed and have him catapult to the top of the news cycle. And Putin may be many things, but he is not this dumb.

Qui Bono? indeed....

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martyr: Navalny? sad that he passed away but elevating him to a Martyr is the lefts way to paint Putin as a bad guy, and making the nation to take our eye's off the issues of the land. Now I'm not praising Putin but after Truckers interview. the left went nuts. Doing all they can to divert all attention from Biden and his destruction of the nation. The US government is no saint. We have killed many but then claim it was all over nations security. We can morn Navalny passing but I will not elevate him. The media and Government tells the public who to hate. I'm not balling for the media's BS Sorry

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So not praising, but Putin is a good guy. The left paints him as a bad guy. Got it.

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Meanwhile, over 80 journalists were killed last year. Killed for being journalists, that is, which includes both political motives and being in a danger zone, such as Gaza.

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"...it’s worth asking why exactly my fellow Americans are supposed to dedicate our energies to the tragic death or murder of a non-American man over 5,000 miles away from America’s eastern shores."

That is exactly my sentiment. And yet again, the American public is being manipulated. Not only shades of Khashoggi, but even more recently, Ukraine. It's never ending.

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Yes - Biden using Navalny’s death to push Congress into finally passing the latest Ukraine extortion bill. They need our billions to REALLY punish Putin now. Somehow the timing & circumstances of Navalny’s demise doesn’t add up.

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USA has traditionally been an advocate for freedom and individual’s human rights. For several years, those themes have been pissed away! Endless wars, bankrupting costs, military industrial complex, and no scope or scale in international conflicts have confounded leaders, lobbyists, & low-information voters! USA has lost its way!

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Man, I remember back when he became a household name in the West. Sounded plausible......Putin bad.

But now, given everything else we've learned about the depravity of the West, I gotta question the establishment storyline. Appreciate the clarity, Mr. Schachtel.

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Tucker Carlson / Mike Benz: Uncensored: The National Security State & the Inversion of Democracy

https://tuckercarlson.com/uncensored-the-national-security-state-the-inversion-of-democracy/

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Everyone should watch this!

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NASCAR and Golf are on.

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We need to look to our own,

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Nonsensical argument. Two things can be true at once. His death is a tragedy, and a blow against human rights, no matter how unpopular he may or may not have been in a country full of people conditioned to accept authoritarianism. Do you really believe polls reflect the true feelings of people in Russia, when they know the wrong thing said to the wrong person could lead to the same fate for them? Come on, man. Republicans were using the same argument in 2020 about people being fearful answering questions from pollsters that would show them to be pro-Trump

To say his death is important and noteworthy in highlighting the absolute savagery of Putin does not preclude you from pointing out the hypocrisy of those on the left gnashing their teeth over it while at the same time pumping their fists over the Trump persecutions.

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Where does one begin? How does one, who grew up in the USA and was spoon fed state propaganda from birth here in, what has been revealed to us through recent events as an “empire of lies” interpret this ‘official outrage’? Certainly today’s Russia is NOT the model governance we who yearn for a return to personal freedoms and limited Federal powers desire, but it is we (and our proxies) who are illegally surveilling, hunting down, prosecuting, imprisoning & plotting to kill, those who question authoritarianism and exposing corruption (the innocent J6 prisoners, Julian Assange, Edward Snowden to name a few). Navalny was most likely an intelligence asset for the CIA working their ‘color revolution’ model and was caught at and punished accordingly, but his death is certainly not much different that that of US citizen journalist Gonzalo Lira who was tortured and left to die in a Ukraine hellhole for the crime of honest journalism and upon who’s death our own corrupt authoritarians remain totally silent while applauding in secret.

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