What a remarkably courageous couple. They both easily could have gotten political asylum in the EU after he recovered from the poisoning, but they chose to return home to continue challenging...
What a remarkably courageous couple. They both easily could have gotten political asylum in the EU after he recovered from the poisoning, but they chose to return home to continue challenging Putin and his corrupt allies instead. Hopefully fear of even more harsh international sanctions keeps them both a bit safer this time around... but somehow I doubt it will given what happened to Sergei Skripal on UK soil. Putin doesn't seem to give a fuck about sanctions, worldwide condemnation, or making martyrs of people. :(
The recent trend of illegal arrests and under-the-radar disappearances of big-name individuals in the East (and West, with Assange) is terrifying to me, especially when paired with what's been...
The recent trend of illegal arrests and under-the-radar disappearances of big-name individuals in the East (and West, with Assange) is terrifying to me, especially when paired with what's been happening to free speech, abhorrent as it can be, by major Western media corporations. I fear that Russia / China and similar dictatorships are and are going to use the current political disarray of the US as justification for becoming even more authoritarian.
“I think that the ban of Donald Trump on Twitter is an unacceptable act of censorship,” Navalny said. “Of course, during his time in the office, Trump has been writing and saying very irresponsible things. And paid for it by not getting re-elected for a second term.”
“The election is a straightforward and competitive process. You can participate in it, you can appeal against the results, they’re being monitored by millions of people. The ban on Twitter is a decision of people we don’t know in accordance with a procedure we don’t know,” he continued.
I agree with most of what you’ve said, but how does the Assange arrest at all compare to this? They seem like completely distinct situations to me, not at all similar.
I agree with most of what you’ve said, but how does the Assange arrest at all compare to this? They seem like completely distinct situations to me, not at all similar.
What a remarkably courageous couple. They both easily could have gotten political asylum in the EU after he recovered from the poisoning, but they chose to return home to continue challenging Putin and his corrupt allies instead. Hopefully fear of even more harsh international sanctions keeps them both a bit safer this time around... but somehow I doubt it will given what happened to Sergei Skripal on UK soil. Putin doesn't seem to give a fuck about sanctions, worldwide condemnation, or making martyrs of people. :(
The recent trend of illegal arrests and under-the-radar disappearances of big-name individuals in the East (and West, with Assange) is terrifying to me, especially when paired with what's been happening to free speech, abhorrent as it can be, by major Western media corporations. I fear that Russia / China and similar dictatorships are and are going to use the current political disarray of the US as justification for becoming even more authoritarian.
Navalny's comments on US affairs a few days ago, and the contrast with what's happening in Russia right now, has been stuck in my head for a while.
But maybe I'm overreacting.
I agree with most of what you’ve said, but how does the Assange arrest at all compare to this? They seem like completely distinct situations to me, not at all similar.
Video of the arrest via Twitter