Why was he important
I dkn't know anything about the guy except he was a Putin opponent.
I don't get why they tried to poison him or killed him. I mean, in a corrupt country you can just let him go free and just rig the elections.
one possibility: Russian intelligence services has learned of a plot to assassinate Putin and replace him with Navalny by western backers and their Russian implants in the gov. Removing him would have spoiled that plan - since without this established and built up proxy, there would have been no way to ensure that another fellow that would take over the reins post-putin-assassination wouldn't be even more anti-west oriented. It takes a while to build up characters like Navalny - replacing them with a new implant wouldn't be easy -
shareNot so far fetched. Given that all the MSM was boosting this relatively new guy eith basically nothing tangible under his belt.
shareThat's actually quite far fetched. π€£
sharewell, why?
shareBecause he pulled it out of his ass. Where's the evidence for this? It might be a fun "what if". But it's far fetched.
Navalny was not a "new guy". He was originally a right wing Russian nationalist who moderated his views and became an anti-corruption advocate.
I dont see as faf fetched the theory that at one point some people in power started to support him seeing him as a viable alternative.
Assasination angle is of course dumb, maybe he was a fall back scenario guy in case x, y or z happened to Putin, and there was a power vacuum.
Ridiculous, yes, far fetched...not entirely sure.
It is not far fetched, if while he was in prison, his people were establishing a network and links in the government who would serve as the backbone of his rise to power. It is all hypothetical -
When US orchestrated a coup in Ukraine, they had several people lined up for the job - that's what makes this scenario so plausible.
Ah yes, the Ukrainians were just mere puppets unable to decide for themselves their future and are just pulled along by whatever the US said. The level of support that Putins party and his ideology has in Russian society is too entrenched. It's impossible to just assassinate him and instantly replace him and all of his party with an entirely new set of people.
shareit was indeed a 'what if' -
he wasn't as much of anti-corruption advocate, as he was anti-regime character - being actively helped by the western powers in his endeavor. The counter to my theory would have been the fact that there are several prominent (and equally corrupt lol) Russian political figures hiding out in the west, so if Putin were to be taken out, I suspect they'd be quickly moved to Russia in order to attempt to take the throne.
The false premise in your analysis here is that all power in Russia is solely concentrated on Putin, and that just removing him somehow means its possible to replace the entire civil service, party officials, military, police, judiciary etc. It just isn't.
share"relatively new guy"?
Navalny has been well known in Russia for nearly two decades.
Yeah if foreign media shines a light on a political opponent of the leader of a country, that means that foreign countries are going to assassinate that leader.
Makes perfect sense.
Your irony is probably lost on the OP.
But I like the idea.
We'll shine a special light on Putin and his entourage. πβ
Be realistic people. It ain't spy movie.
Navalny had no chance to become any president. As he had very little support from russian people. If there would be fair elections he would have like 3-5% of votes. It's just that his hipster supporters are loud on social media and there are no other opposition in russia. So people and foreign press hyped him. But absolute majority of russians are die-hard fanatics of putin and would not submit to Navalny.
When putin will die (hopefully soon) there would be other transition of power. One of his henchmen will take it, probably and who knows what they will do next.
There was 0.0% of anyone assassinating putin and putting Navalny in charge. It's very silly and stupid assumption. It ain't Lifetime movie, people.
That is tho whole point of my post.
I have never seen Navalny as any realistic alternative to any leadership of russia, therefore I cannot understand why people would try to poison/imprison/kill him.
Why would someone in power go through so much effort to silence a guy that would eventually, if left alone, just be ignored and forgotten.
I explained why. Because putin is crazy dictator and maniac. People in the west operate by their own logic and common sense moderating behavior on them. Not understanding that mind of nazi russians and russian hitler operate on other level.
They did it because they could and wanted. Like they do other things. Stop trying to find any logic in their actions. There isn't.
What a load of speculative drivel. Ah yes, because assassinating the head of a nuclear state wouldn't cause any unintended consequences.
How were they going to extract him from a prison in Yamalo-Nenets?