Comments by "Ash Roskell" (@ashroskell) on "Navalny's body found" video.

  1. Navalny’s remains will be cremated before any independent scientific eyes are allowed to see it. Those people asking, “why,” you think Navalny was murdered are obviously either ignorant of world affairs or just sinister shills, asking in bad faith. There is no middle ground there. As ever, Putin will be content with various opposing stories to come out. That’s how his system works. The truth is irrelevant. Only that there are many versions of it, which people will argue over until Russians shrug and say, “What’s the point? We’ll never know.” The more relevant question is, “Why now?” And I suspect that is to do with the fact that Russia is holding their, “elections,” next month. The message to any potential pro-democracy candidates, anyone gathering up their courage, is clear: “This is what happens to my opponents.”
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  2. I would take issue with one of your points there. This is far from the first time that Putin has showed his hand in this manner. I’m not speaking of Prigozhin either, as he was a, “legitimate target,” in the minds of Russians on both sides of the pro or anti democratic fence. But, Putin has been murdering people rather routinely, at home and abroad. He murdered a popular, well known journalist in front of the Kremlin. Had her shot in the back of the head to make his point. To put that in terms we can really identify with, imagine it’s the following week after the infamous Prince Andrew interview over the Epstein affair. In front of Buckingham Palace the body of Emily Maitliss is found with a single gunshot wound to the back of her head. By the following day, the press reveals that all clues as to the identity of the killer lead back to MI5. Then . . . radio silence. No more press coverage. No closure. Nothing. Imagine the impact that would have on the British people? With rumours swirling about other journalists who attempted to cover the story who got fired. Krishnan Guru-Murthy is, “let go,” from Channel 4 with no reason given to the public, but internet chatter suggesting he was upset about the death of Maitliss and wanted to do a follow up story. He is never available for comment and has closed his Twitter account. That paranoia and unease that everyone would be going through is just the start of the deliberate fear and loathing that Putin wants his people to feel. Yet the list of his most famous and infamous victims, at home and abroad, is now larger than Stalin’s. I think you could be right that this straw could break the camel’s back. After all, we none of us predicted the fall of communism in Russia. Nor did the world, by all accounts, foresee the fall of the Tzars. So, I would never count out a groundswell of anger to grow into something bigger.
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