Thread by @akoz33

Finally, a fragment about Russia's role (and Biden).
Now there are three small details that I would like to talk about. And the first is, of course, the role of Russia.

Let me remind you that from this plane, which flew from Athens to Vilnius, some other persons got off in Minsk. Obviously they were FSB officers. That is, the operation was obviously supervised not from Belarus, but from Russia.

They were Russian citizens. It would be strange if Russian citizens worked in Lukashenka's KGB.

I think that two things were important here for the Kremlin.

It was such a breakthrough - to look at little Uganda we will try in a laboratory test tube what will happen: you can kidnap a person from Europe or not? In this sense,

I would be very nervous in the shoes of those comrades-in-arms of Navalny, who left for Vilnius or somewhere close enough to Russia’s borders. And in Vilnius, too, I would be tense.

But I think, of course, that this is not the main motivation, because Putin himself already knows that Europe will shout at this and will then give up. As Bozena Rynska said wonderfully: “Well, hold on, Luka! Now Europe censure you! "

The main motivations, I think, are two. First, to stick a finger in Biden’s eye before the meeting. Putin was trying to achieve a meeting with Biden with a rash of various horrors: "Soon I will go to war with Ukraine!"

And as soon as Biden said that he was ready for a meeting, it turned out that the war with Ukraine was postponed.
And it seems that Putin has decided not to tone down.

And the point this is a very good moment to distract attention, because what will they discuss at the meeting between Baden and Putin? That's right: Lukashenko. Anything, if only not the poisoning of Navalny: Ukraine, Lukashenko ...

And somehow, look, everyone has somehow already forgotten about the poisoning of Navalny. Everybody forgot that he is imprisoned. So many interesmore exciting things have happened. A war almost happened to Ukraine, the kindapping of Protasevich.

Here again: for Putin it is much better it the world talks about the capture of Roman Protasevich than for the world to discuss the capture of Alexei Navalny. Greater Uganda used Little Uganda as a laboratory pig.

This is such a perfect combination for Putin, because, in fact, the Kremlin is the absolute master at carrying out horrors. They have achieved absolute perfection in this.

As for doing something good for their own country - building hospitals, letting businesses develop - that is too hard for them. But they all about doing horrible things to a neighboring country.

And look how it has turned out. On the one hand, these people, who got off in Minsk, showed directly to the whole world that yes, there is a Moscow trace there.

But, on the other hand, it also shows to the whole world that even if this is known everyone will still be talking about Lukashenko.