Europe must ensure Navalny's murder is not in vain: here's how. 1/ 🧵 
Alexei Navalny was one of the bravest leaders of his time. With a view of Russia as it could be & an insight into the hell it would become under Putin. 2/
What Russia needed, was someone who openly refused to be silenced. And Navalny was willing to be that man. Putin or him. All or nothing. And with that, he signed his own fate. 3/
His death says everything about the state of Russia today.
Since the invasion of Ukraine repression has increased exponentially. It shows Putin with his back to the wall, stopping at nothing, more dangerous than ever. 4/
Since the invasion of Ukraine repression has increased exponentially. It shows Putin with his back to the wall, stopping at nothing, more dangerous than ever. 4/
Navalny’s death should sound alarm bells all over Europe. 5/
First, we need to find out what has really happened. Not that we have any illusions, but every bit of hard truth that comes out of Russia is important in the fight against Putin’s omnipresent lies. 6/
Second, the international community must hold Putin accountable. We need to extend sanctions to the full Navalny list, describing the 6.000 people who form the backbone of his regime. 7/
Third, we need an emergency European Council to set up war bonds for Ukraine, make steps towards a proper common European defence union and implement additional sanctions. 8/
A perfect storm is heating up between an imperial Moscow, an ill-prepared and poorly led Europe going to the polls and an impressionable US public opinion driven by unhinged, Putin-loving so-called ‘republicans’. 9/
If Navalny taught us one thing, it’s that Putin will not allow anyone in his world who is not under his total control. No illusions: He is at war with us & our way of life. We will meet him with a more forceful Union, or we will all suffer as a result. 10/10
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