WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Donald Trump, who drew criticism as U.S. president for his praise of Russian leader Vladimir Putin, made his first public comment on the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny on Monday in a social media post that cast no blame. "The sudden death of Alexei Navalny has made me more and more aware of what is happening in our Country," Trump wrote, appearing to link the death to his own political troubles. It was not clear what similarities Trump was trying to draw with Russia's most prominent opposition leader.
  • @kava@lemmy.world
    -14•9 months ago

    yeah the last few days have been an excellent example of manufactured consent. we pretend like our free press is trying to get the truth on the ground… yet nearly every single article I’ve read about the death of Navalny only mentions that he was a “democratic dissident” and critic of Putin. That he is a “symbol of hope” for Russians who don’t support the Putin regime

    Paints him as some sort of martyr revolutionary, a Russian MLK Jr

    When in reality this guy founded an ethnic nationalist organization and there are pictures and videos of him marching next to swastikas

    this whole ordeal shows how heavily manipulated our media is. it’s sick

    • @rdyoung@lemmy.world
      8•9 months ago

      Could you please provide some sources for this? This is the first time I am reading about this side of Nalvany.

      • Overzeetop
        6•9 months ago

        Make sure you read to the end of that article. Nevalny himself (NPR interview, maybe?) admitted that he has courted the far right as well as the left in his bid to expose corruption within the Russian system and gain enough support to attempt to topple the Putin regime. He is unapologetic about it as he feels his intent (to clean up Russia and push for democracy) justifies his acceptance of all Russians as fellow countrymen. Like most people seeking power, his path is not pure and his antagonists will use that to poison any positive message he presents.

        • @kava@lemmy.world
          -2•9 months ago

          that’s putting it lightly. calling all muslims “cockroaches” and calling for the deportation of all immigrants it’s exactly “courting the far right” he got kicked out of his party for being too far-right extremist and founded a nationalist organization right after. we can call that “courting the far right” or we can call that “being an instrumental leader of the far right”

            • @kava@lemmy.world
              -4•9 months ago

              i’m pretty sure this sub is heavily manipulated by some sort of astroturfing bot net. mostly because it seems like a word for word echo of /r/politics and we know that sub is heavily manipulated

              so i just hope some real people see this and re-evaluate their positions. one guy at least seemed genuinely curious and wasn’t aware. so that’s something, at least.

                • @kava@lemmy.world
                  2•9 months ago

                  It’s a neoliberal type of left. Basically establishment DNC. You know, the type to ask your pronouns before they launch a bomb with a pride flag on it at brown people.

                  Regardless, it’s still heavily manipulated. My ex-gf worked for DNC and participated in these types of “outreach campaigns”.

                  Don’t take anything you read online at face value

      • @kava@lemmy.world
        -7•9 months ago

        ok. for one, read the wikipedia page but i suggest reading one that was edited before he died just because after he died there’s been a lot of changes

        https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alexei_Navalny&oldid=1189517416#2011_parliamentary_election_and_protests

        some bits to back up what i said

        He was behind the 2006 Russian Nationalist march

        In late 2006, Navalny appealed to the Moscow City Hall, asking it to grant permission to conduct the nationalist 2006 Russian march.

        This was essentially a giant protest against immigrants. There were many neo-nazis including people holding swastikas. if you look around long enough, you’ll find a find of navalny there with some swastikas behind him. i can’t find the video right now but i found some images of the russian march which should be enough to show there were neo-nazis there

        please see following images i’ve placed into an imgur album: https://imgur.com/a/m5JQxIH

        he founded this organization: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Russian_Liberation_Movement

        National Russian Liberation Movement, which made anti-immigrant its main policy. During this period of time he would make certain statements like

        “muslims are cockroaches that need to be exterminated” “immigrants are like cavities, you need to pull them out” etc

        “Everything in our way should be carefully but decisively removed through deportation,” Navalny said in a video dressed as a dentist, comparing immigrants to dental cavities.

        here’s an article that goes more in depth: https://jacobin.com/2021/01/alexei-navalny-russia-protests-putin

        while it’s true that the Russian regime has illegally restrained him - they arrested him, tried to poison him, and ultimately killed him - but he was still a neonazi

    • GodlessCommieEnglish
      -9•9 months ago

      Many have this delusion that the enemy of my enemy is my friend.