The world is going through a dark period. I posted the following comment two days ago on Sergey Radchenko’s article in The Spectator Hope for Russia has died with Navalny
This is a black day for Russia and the West. Dictatorships sense when leaders of democracies are weak and take advantage of it. People living in democracies take their freedoms for granted and do not understand how totalitarian regimes function, and often underestimate the threat emanating from them. Nemtsov, Navalny and Kara-Murza had been warning for years about Putin but nobody listened. Of the three, only Kara-Murza is still alive, in prison.
Not since the 1930s do we have such a confluence of weak leaders in the West. It boggles the mind how Biden is still trying to appease Iran and just came up with a delusional plan of recognizing a Palestinian state in the near future just 4 1⁄3 months after Oct 7. Macron and Cameron are lecturing Israel how to protect Palestinian civilians whereas the IDF already has the best noncombatant to combatant death ratio (1.5: 1 in Gaza) of any army in history, whereas for US wars in Afghanistan and Iraq the ratio was 4 civilians killed for every combatant. Only Ukraine and Israel are seriously fighting totalitarian regimes.
How did it come about that Russia is back where it was 80 years ago during Stalin? Perhaps the best is to read Alexei Navalny’s own explanation:
