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0 pointsapercu2y ago0 comments

> If Navalny became Russian president - the next day 80% of Russians would be completely persuaded they were always against the war.

I'm not sure Navalny is against the occupation on Crimea and Ukraine, there's nuance there, he has said he's against the Russian Military interventions, but he is still a Russian nationalist and has (to my knowledge) been against the conduct of the war and wants a diplomatic solution but it's not clear to me that he would have ever "given" Crimea back.

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ajuc2y ago· 1 in thread

Well he's murdered now. He was trying to position himself as "reasonable" during "Crimea is ours" euphoria, I'm not sure but I'd expect him to return all the annexed territories if he got in power after the full scale invasion. Russia would need to do it anyway to get sanctions removed.

apercuOP2y ago

> I'm not sure but I'd expect him to return all the annexed territories if he got in power

We'll never know, but I "feel" like that would have damaged him politically had he been in power in Russia and therefore doubt he would have. But again, we'll never know. And it's purely theoretical, even if he wasn't dead, there is no scenario that I can realistically think where Putin would have allowed Navalny to replace him, absent the FSB/oligarchs assassinating Putin. But even there, I suspect Navalny would still have been murdered and we'd still just get "Putin-lite"

int_19h2y ago

He was a Russian nationalist. And yes, he did say that Crimea "is not a sandwich to just give it back", back in 2014. But things have changed a lot since then.

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