Navalny was no threat to Putin, but the West regards Putin as its biggest threat, so it will do everything in its power to discredit him. From Andrew Korybko at korybko.substack.com:
The timing couldn’t have been worse from the perspective of Russian state interests.
The death of Alexey Navalny in an Arctic prison on Friday, which was tentatively attributed to a blood clot, has sparked another global round of anti-Russian information warfare. Western officials claimed within minutes of the news breaking that President Putin was responsible for his passing, but he had no reason to kill him while the West has every reason to lie that he did. The present piece will present a few arguments in support of these interconnected theses.
The timing couldn’t have been worse from the perspective of Russian state interests. Presidential elections will be held in a month and the incumbent would prefer as high of a turnout as possible, yet now some misled members of the electorate who wouldn’t ordinarily boycott the vote might sit this one out in protest. The West will predictably spin whatever reduced turnout might result from this as delegitimizing President Putin’s mandate when he wins another term as expected.
Furthermore, the unauthorized demonstrations that have taken place in some Russian cities to mourn Navalny prompted law enforcement to detain some of the participants, which the West will exploit in pursuit of the abovementioned goals. Neither outcome will lead to any serious unrest or disrupt the political process inside of Russia, but their importance rests in how much they might continue kindling anti-Russian information warfare operations inside the West itself.
If the truth be known, I believe it was MI6 that had him killed to keep him from talking.
Did he participate in the experimental gene therapy treatment LARP?
Why no outcry about the great Gonzalo Lira who could have been set free with one phone call?
No one had the 404 figured out like he did because he was there and all throughout the Samizdat video he says…you can look this up for yourself.
Also no outcry about Julian Assange rotting away.
Is that why Tucker asked about the journalist just to show up the double standard?