European leaders, the media and plenty of wanna be political analysts on the internet are definitely skewing his story completely.
To me he is just another asshole that isn’t Putin, and whilst I can agree that his experience in prison and everything that led up to that including being poisoned might have finally knocked some sense into him but based on his actual political career in Russia I wouldn’t want him in any position of power.
The problem is that I don’t see a way to fix Russia that doesn’t include a massive war and a post war Germany like situation.
This isn’t about its people on an individual level many if not most aren’t different than you or me.
Collectively as a nation at this point it’s beyond redemption simply because how utterly broken it is on every level.
The USSR at least was driven by an ideology based on a universal political/social theory good bad it doesn’t matter.
Today I have no idea what Russia stands for and that’s the most dangerous situation I can think off because it means that nothing is off the table.
Russia is a nation that has been failing upwards for 2 centuries and it managed to fail upwards to the point in which it has a nuclear arsenal large enough to obliterate human civilization as we know it.
If you’ve heard of someone being a nominee was who didn't win, despite the 50-year non-disclosure rule, it's usually a fringe group with that disrespects the prize and the process and is desperate for attention, not a serious nominee or otherwise representative of the general view of the West.
Yeah, but that is exactly the point of this thread.
Is the West doing that? I’ve literally never seen anything from Western government or media saying anything positive about his platform/program, what he offers Russia, or anything, only that (1) he’s Putin’s most popular opponent, and (2) Putin tried to murder him, and then threw him in prison.
The West has set him up as a symbol of Putin’s authoritarianism (well, mostly Putin did that, but the West highlights it), not as a savior.