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He was nominated for a bloody Nobel peace prize and was a serious candidate. European leaders, the media and plenty of wanna be political analysts on the inter
by dogma1138 5y ago
He was nominated for a bloody Nobel peace prize and was a serious candidate.
European leaders, the media and plenty of wanna be political analysts on the internet are definitely skewing his story completely.
To me he is just another asshole that isn’t Putin, and whilst I can agree that his experience in prison and everything that led up to that including being poisoned might have finally knocked some sense into him but based on his actual political career in Russia I wouldn’t want him in any position of power.
The problem is that I don’t see a way to fix Russia that doesn’t include a massive war and a post war Germany like situation.
This isn’t about its people on an individual level many if not most aren’t different than you or me.
Collectively as a nation at this point it’s beyond redemption simply because how utterly broken it is on every level.
The USSR at least was driven by an ideology based on a universal political/social theory good bad it doesn’t matter.
Today I have no idea what Russia stands for and that’s the most dangerous situation I can think off because it means that nothing is off the table.
Russia is a nation that has been failing upwards for 2 centuries and it managed to fail upwards to the point in which it has a nuclear arsenal large enough to obliterate human civilization as we know it.
- dragonwriter 5y ago> He was nominated for a bloody Nobel peace prize and was a serious candidate. If you’ve heard of someone being a nominee was who didn't win, despite the 50-year non-disclosure rule, it's usually a fringe group with that disrespects the prize and the process and is desperate for attention, not a serious nominee or otherwise representative of the general view of the West.
- nautilius 5y agoTrump was nominated for a Nobel peace price, but the West hardly looked up to him as a savior...
- quetzthecoatl 5y agoObama got the Nobel prize, and he proceeded to commit crimes against humanity - especially against some of the poorest and weakest people on the face of earth. It's a political award.
- nautilius 5y agoI don't think I understand how that has got anything to do with Navalny being nominated for it as proof that the West is "trying to set him up as some sort of savior".
- quetzthecoatl 5y agothat it has nothing to do with real achievements, but everything to do with politics and optics. I am not saying "west" wanted to award Navalny Nobel peace price, but if they did, it's understandable given the real politik.
- nautilius 5y ago> I am not saying "west" wanted to award Navalny Nobel peace price Yeah, but that is exactly the point of this thread.
- unmole 5y agoBut Obama got the Nobel before committing crimes against humanity. He got it before doing really anything as a president.