A court in Moscow has issued an arrest warrant for the widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny on charges of extremism, according to state media.
The charges brought against Yulia Navalnaya, who lives outside Russia, in absentia are to do with her alleged “participation in an extremist society”, Tass news agency said.
Navalny was Russia’s most significant opposition leader of the past decade. He died in February in an Arctic Circle jail. Russian authorities said he died of natural causes - but his widow said Navalny had been “tortured, starved, cut off and killed” by Russia’s president Vladimir Putin.
Navalny had been serving 19 years on extremism charges that were widely seen as politically motivated.
Responding to the arrest warrant against her, Yulia Navalnaya posted on X: "When you write about this, please do not forget to write the main thing: Vladimir Putin is a murderer and a war criminal.
Because that worked so well with Saddam, Gaddafi and so many others. Putin may be evil but you have no idea what could happen if you create a power vacuum nor who might step in to fill it.
Supposedly though Putin has cancer so here’s hoping nature gets rid of him.
I’ll consider this to be propaganda until he keels over from it.
Yeah there have been “news just hit!” articles for years and years and years about how he has terminal cancer or parkinsons or anything else and is about to die soon. That his face is bloated because of steroids because of some cancer treatment or whatever. (Somehow no one ever attributes it to an overuse of fillers.) And the first 5 articles you might fall for it, but after the sixth article like that and in something like year 8 you kinda realize that these news have no substantial claim. Fool me five times, shame on you. Fool me six times shame on me.
Hopefully sooner rather than later. And why would it be propaganda when he tried to hide it for a while?
What’s the worst thing that can happen? Russia is already a shithole where vast majority of honest and hardworking population lives like shit - they will continue to live like shit. The only ones that will get hurt from the inevitable infighting that starts are the oligarchs. Fuck 'em.
I feel like this would allow next tsar of russia to claim this was putin`s war, give back Ukrainian territory, maybe even promise some reparations they have no intentions to deliver, and continue leeching off natural resources.
Either way, immediate problem of these cunts killing Ukrainian children by bombing hospitals is solved.
The worst is significantly worse than that. Look at history. Rwanda, Cambodia, Sudan, for starters.
And they have nuclear weapons.
Are you seriously comparing tiny, colonial countries to russia? There’s nowhere we can really look in history.
Judging by the state of the rest of russia’s military, I’m not worrying too much about nukes when the rest of world has modern and tested defense systems.
There are far, far more nukes in the world than defense systems for nuclear missiles. If one person “presses the button”, everyone else will, and maybe 1% of all nuclear missiles will be caught.
When russia inevitably starts collapsing from the inside and fracturing into smaller city states (or whatever local tsars decide to call their occupied territories) I’m sure that America and the rest of the advanced militaries will have boots on the ground immediately to secure the nukes.
Either way, not worried.
Many here say it’s a relative utopia to the decay of the west, which is hilarious
My Lemmy experience became infinitely better after blocking 2 instances where this nonsense is coming from.
I actually made a mistake of trying to have a conversation with them there when I just joined Lemmy. Never again lol.
It actually can be a lot worse …
In what way?
It worked well with Stalin (though admitedly he died from a heart attack, so nobody to blame, but still his death made USSR a bit better almost immediately)
you are right, there are way crazier people in the Kremlin than Putin. He’s evil no question, but he still seems to be rational enough to realize a nuclear war (e.g. as retaliation for Western help for Ukraine) would mean he lost. We should hope that the cancer isn’t in his brain or some other cause makes him cross into irrationality.
It would have to be an extensive and extended operation, and it doesn’t seem like there’s anyone around who wouldn’t fuck it up on purpose who has any appetite for such an undertaking