We thwarted an authoritarian in the middle of consolidating power. We did it by exercising our rights as American citizens: we voted. Neither rain, nor sleet, nor the installation of hack at the USPS, nor a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic could stop us.
2/ Enough of us had the sense to rebuke disinformation and vote for the good guy and gal.
OLD DIC: “Khodorkovsky said the arrest of Navalny was an attempt by Putin—whom he cast as an ‘ageing autocrat’—to show that he is still Russia’s top dog.
“Khodorkovsky said the West should impose sanctions on individuals involved in expanding Russia’s network of corrupt money across the world.”-@Reuters
“Putin feels he has to show he is the main animal in the herd or that people will believe that he is no longer the top dog,” Khodorkovsky, 57, told @Reuters in London when asked why @Navalny had been targetted.
Plz read @mhmck report on Putin’s Ukraine strategy to understand America’s peril:
“A key tactic of..Putin’s war was to use organized mobs to seize public buildings. Americans are confronted now with same tactic of masked warfare..and they’ll see it in more cities in days ahead.”