I love the idea of Biden giving her honors, inviting her to the White House and talking with her, basically so that she can know that there are people on her side, to some degree, something like that.
The State of the Union isn't that. Marjorie Taylor Green is going to scream at her that she's secretly a transgender dolphin and Navalny was trying to steal all the gold that Dr. Evil buried under the Kremlin in 1966. Jim Jordan will try to serve her a subpeona so he can finally get to the bottom of Hunter Biden's laptop. There's all kinds of weird bullshit that goes on in the U.S. congress, and I genuinely don't think it's polite to expose her to it.
Just let us have our weird governmental thanksgiving with all our weird uncles and have the serious stuff happen somewhere else.
I agree all the crazy stuff will happen, but I think she's dealt with worse at this point. Her husband was literally poisoned and imprisoned by her government. I don't think the lunatics in our government can do much worse.
Actually, MTG's compromisation aside, the two of them actually have a lot of policy stances in common. Navalny was anti-muslim xenophobe. Sure, he was the only one with the balls and following to stand up to Putin for so long, but it doesn't change the quality of their character.
“Mrs. Navalney, why don’t you invite your mother-in-law, too? And your own parents. And pets. Also, bring any valuables and anything you can’t stand to leave behind. Why? Oh… don’t worry about that…”
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Tuesday told reporters the invitation had been extended to Ms Navalnaya, but said the Russian opposition figure will not be in First Lady Jill Biden’s box above the House floor when Mr Biden addresses Congress on Thursday.
Mr Navalny’s funeral took place on Friday in Moscow, with thousands of people paying their respects under a large police presence.
She is taking on a daunting task, and it remains unclear if she, in cooperation with her husband’s followers and other opposition groups, can seriously challenge the rule of Mr Putin, who’s set to be re-elected once again in March to another six-year term.
With loyalist security forces, a subservient judiciary, a controlled media environment, and a legislature consisting of a ruling party and pliable opposition factions, the Kremlin manipulates elections and suppresses genuine dissent”.
While Ms Navalnaya has accused Mr Putin of killing her husband, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov called the claim “unfounded” as well as “insolent”.
At a meeting of the European Union’s Foreign Affairs Council last month, she told leaders not to recognize the results of the Russian election in March and to place sanctions on more of Mr Putin’s close allies.
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On the other hand, there isn't a damn thing that won't conform to Putin's propaganda machine. If there is nothing, he'll just make it up. To hell with him.
I am from a Russian speaking family and still retain enough of the language to understand this. Not once did he mention a thing about muslims. You have fallen for propaganda.
I mean I didn't know much about the guys political philosophies outside of opposing Putin until i started seeing posts like this. Sounds to me we shouldn't really be praising someone who uses the same talking points as the guy running for office who will destroy American democracy
My audience would be the people cheering him on without knowing a single thing about him other than opposing Putin. Politically he was as much a threat to Putin being President as the mayor of Wallace Idaho being a threat to Trump or Biden.
I mean, I get where you're coming from. Navalny may have opposed Putin but it's not like he was some great guy. But on the flipside, it's a nice little "fuck you" to Putin, which is rarely a bad thing.
But on review, Amnesty International concluded that comments made by Navalny some 15 years ago, including a video which appears to compare immigrants to cockroaches, amounted to "hate speech" which was incompatible with the label "prisoner of conscience". Source
Gotta do something to try and distract from the illegal invasion and genocide Biden does support....
Can't be against all of it. That would be progressive.
Obviously it's best to oppose one and support the other, it's halfway between right and wrong, which means it's moderate and obviously the best choice.
Imagine if we had a president that was right on Russia and Israel! That would just be too much. We need a leader not afraid to take completely contradictory positions and refuse to even attempt to explain why.
It tracks the US would invite the widow of a right wing xenophobic white nationalist to the SOTU. One would have thought Canada inviting a literal Nazi to their chamber would have taught them a lesson.