It's a matter of degree, not overall nature. They're both imperial powers. Russia tends to be more brutal towards internal dissidents; America overthrows more d

It's a matter of degree, not overall nature. They're both imperial powers. Russia tends to be more brutal towards internal dissidents; America overthrows more democracies and is generally more invasion happy. Navalny was also pretty obviously a western stooge with western backing, made popular by western propaganda, pushing a pro western agenda, whereas Assange was just a dissident who exposed a war crime whom western imperialists tried to paint (really pathetically) as a Russian spy. It's like arguing over whether the crips or the bloods are different because one had a lower body count this year or something. The westerners who protest navalny or get incensed about Russia's human rights record remind me of the multitude of Soviets in the 1950s who used to protest Jim Crow and lynchings in America.