Thread by @akoz33

It is interesting to see how many non-Russian “anti-Putinists” are now turning against Navalny. The main objection seems to be that unlike the usual Russian “liberals” , Navalny is not interested in playing “the noble loser” - he is clearly after political power. Thus he

is no intention to publicly take positions that are guaranteed to make 80% of Russians turn against him. The most ironic thing is seeing various “nationalists” of other nations turn against Navalny because, like they, he is a “nationalist”, in other words he wants Russia to be

strong and does not want it to break up which, by the way, was exactly what such genuine democrat and liberal as Peter Struve wanted, see

https://twitter.com/akoz33/status/1138108272748257280

Unlike Struve, Navalny is not a man of high culture and during his flight to Moscow watched some silly cartoons, which for Evgeny Ponasenkov is an unforgivable crime. Other object to the fact that Navalny clearly is not what official Putin’s propaganda claims he is, i.e. a

“Western agent”. There are many similarities to the way allied leaders “cold shouldered” the German anti-Nazi Resistance, primarily because the resisters wanted to save Germany rather than destroy. In Poland, they were blamed for being German rather than Polish patriots, I have

even heard people say that it was a good thing that the plot of the 20th July 1944 failed, because otherwise Poland might not have got its post-war borders in the West. The fact that millions of lives would have been saved was a less important matter.
Here is Joachim Fest