Oddbean

For us (in Poland)he was just another Russian imperialist. Not opposition but competition for Putin. He clearly stated that Poland should be part of Russian empire. Also he officially said that Crimea is Russia. Americans still don't understand Russia.

It’s far worse than that, and also applies to #Poland, regarding socialism, as one of my associates wrote: “ Difficult to feel sorry for anyone who was trying to become the next government and still live by forcing 100% of their funding from the productive captives. From following him and his supporters many years, clear that he would have at most tried to build a socialist, bureaucratic tyranny that exists in Europe, US, Canada, Australia, practically everywhere, except monarchies. That's straight from his collaborators among Russian economists - Milov, Guriev. Nothing else - besides that and the dictatorships that have existed in Russia for a thousand years - is possible there. “

What I heard was that Navalny was a fun guy who just wanted freedom and fun for everyone and that he wanted to become supreme leader of Russia for fun, for goodness, and for truth (kinda like Zelensky). I also heard that everyone in Russian politics is pure and wonderful except for Putin and anyone who doesn't condemn him.

Everyone in russian politics is controlled by putin/kgb/fsb. The whole political spectrum in russia exists only to make an illusion of democracy and to deliver putin's speech indirectly — just check out transcripts by Julia Davis' Russian Media Monitor https://youtube.com/@russianmediamonitor