Genuinely curious who’ll be killed off first - him or Putin.
Putin’s immensely popular both domestically and in the Global South. Navalny is popular in the West and in some parts of Russia.
With the rise of the Global South, my money is on Putin keeping it together.
domestic numbers spoofed, when anti-putin riots occur frequently and are brutallt supressed it’s hard to say it’s ‘immense’
Go to Russia and find out lol
Been to Russia and live on the border of it. Basically if you have a chance of beating Putin you aren’t going to be an option to vote for. The part of the government who decides who will be the options is controlled by Putin. The approval is pretty much bullshit, I haven’t asked everyone in Russia but I have yet to meet someone who supports Putin, especially after he invaded Ukraine.
I know Russians who live in Europe and who are deeply anti war and Putin, but whose families are still completely buying into Russian propaganda and who think their own children are lying to them.
I also know Russians from less brainwashed families who are critical.
More strikingly perhaps, I had a friend a little less than a decade ago who went to study in Russia for half a year, and came back completely apologetic for everything Putin stood for. I cut contact and haven’t heard from her since, so I have no idea where she stands now, but it was a forceful demonstration of the propaganda apparatus. It’s not that they’re necessarily evil or bad people, they’ve just been subject to world-class propaganda for decades. Opposing Putin after all that takes quite a lot of work.
have you been to russia
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I think Putin. I mean, killing Navalny or keeping him in that place is basically the same effort and risk for the Kremlin. Maybe is safer to leave him there, tbh
this guy is a neo-Nazi, it was so annoying to see westoids praising him years ago
The clown candidate
Did they actually move him to the North Pole or are they having fun with the word “Arctic”?
The new place they moved him to is north of the Arctic Circle so it’s accurate.
This dude doesn’t even poll that high compared to the other contenders.
Great, let’s keep it that way. Sic semper Nazis
and nothing of value was lost
Womp womp
TFW crime doesn’t pay
technically true actually as putin does make the laws, so in his eyes it’s criminal to run against him
