A Tribute to Saint Alexei, Patron Saint of Liberal Democracy
Western Anti-Russia Hawks Take Advantage Of Navalny's Death
As Andrew Korybko pointed out in a post shared on Zero Hedge earlier, Anti-Russia hawks in the West have been taking advantage of Alexei Navalny's death to try to push through more money for Ukraine:
Navalny’s unexpected death on Friday was taken advantage of by anti-Russian hawks to demand that the House pass the Senate’s proxy war funding bill when it resumes its session later this month, but even if it’s approved, the problem is that the US has already expended its stockpiles.
With the battle over Ukraine funding ongoing, it's worth taking a closer look at some of the anti-Russia hawks wielding Navalny's death as a sword. Niccolo Soldo did just that in a spectacular essay he was kind enough to let us excerpt below. Following that, we'll close with a brief top names update, on our best 6-month return to date.
Authored by Niccolo Soldo via Substack
A Tribute to Saint Alexei, Patron Saint of Liberal Democracy
I didn't even know he was sick
Vladimir Putler has gone and done it now!
Most of you haven’t heard the news yet, but Russia’s most popular political figure, Alexei Navalny, was murdered this past weekend by the brutal dictator temporarily residing in the Kremlin. Well-placed sources say that this hit was ordered by the weak (and little) man known as “Vladimir Putin” because Navalny’s crack team of anti-corruption activists had found child porn on his laptop, and were about to publish this bombshell in media across the globe.
My better placed sources inform me that Putler had given the order to kill him in a fit of rage when he learned from Tucker Carlson that Navalny was a “superfan” of the animated TV series “Rick and Morty”. The show’s subversive and highly intelligent humour (most of you are too dumb to get it) is viewed by Putler as a personal affront because of the secretly encoded anti-regime messages strategically planted throughout each episode. Russia’s state security service (FSB) tried to decipher them, but their analysts are simply too dumb to be able to do so (remember: the show is for the highly intelligent, which means that most of you can’t get it….so stop pretending that you do).
During the interview prep session, Tucker Carlson shared this now famous photo of Alexei Navalny and his wife Lyudmila watching Rick and Morty on their flight back to Russia from Germany, shortly after Alexei’s recovery from Putlerian poisoning:
This is the last known photograph of Alexei experiencing freedom.
The fact that Putler personally went to the Siberian gulag where Alexei was being held prisoner in order to kill him in person speaks volumes about how weak, pathetic, and cowardly the Russian dictator really is. He knew that in any and open free election Russia (monitored by the OSCE, UN, the CIA, and other trusted international bodies) he would get trounced by Russia’s most popular politician in history. Research shows that in a head-to-head election for the Russian Presidency in a free and fair vote, Navalny would get between 85-91% of the overall popular vote. To put it simply, he had to go.
My very well-placed sources in Russia tell me that there is now a fight over custody of Navalny’s beautiful, swimmer-like corpse. Most assume that this is because Putler fears that an autopsy will reveal how he was bludgeoned to death with vodka bottles. There is no doubt that this IS the case, but there is also another reason: Putler wants to ensure that no one gets access to Alexei’s perfect remains because it is rumoured that it has already performed three miracles, thus making Russia’s most popular person in history a candidate for sainthood in the Catholic Church.
Some are already calling him “The Messiah of the Russian future”:
I believe this. I also believe that every Russian town in 50 years from now will have its own Navalny Square. Russian writer Lyudmila Ulitskaya agrees with me.
Mikhail Shishkin is fighting for democracy in Russia on the frontline in Switzerland, and I agree with his assessment here:
Russian exiles in Switzerland have a great historical track record of returning home and making their country a liberal democratic paradise, so Shishkin is one to watch [Vladimir Lenin famously lived in exile in Switzerland before leading the Bolshevik takeover of Russia].
Carole Codswallop also paid tribute to the greatest Russian of all-time:
If you don’t know who Carole is, she is the UK’s leading crusader against misinformation AND disinformation. She is leading two battles simultaneously, and has done incredible work uncovering how Putler financed and organized #Brexit. The brutal murder of Alexei makes her work all the more important.
St. Alexei, Patron Saint of Russia and Liberal Democracy
St. Alexei was not always a good person i.e. liberal democrat. In fact, his earlier life resembled that of St. Augustine of Hippo, one of Christianity’s titans. In his youth, Augustine turned away from God to pursue a life of hedonism, eventually realizing that a life without God was not a worthy life at all.
St. Alexei also rejected liberal democracy in his youth, as we can see from this 2007 entry in his LiveJournal:
Much like the typical non-liberal democrat Slav, our St. Alexei was crude, mean, vicious, savage, and sadistic…..just like his murderer, Putler.
It was around this time that God/Liberal Democracy intervened from up on high, and granted him a scholarship to Yale University via the Yale World Fellows Progam. God/Liberal Democracy picked him out of a crowd to set him on the right path, the path of godly liberal democracy. At Yale, St. Alexei attended weekly seminars based around the concept of the “Good Society”:
Good Society. World Fellows present to each other their vision for making the world a better place, what they do professionally, and how they contribute to building the ‘good society.’
He also attended salons:
Salon. World Fellows host distinguished guests for discussions on key topics, expanding their knowledge and challenging their views.
St. Alexei also experienced his own personal development:
World Fellows receive individual and group coaching and skills development training. World Fellows can audit many of the 2,000+ courses offered at Yale, work on individual or collaborative projects, and conduct independent research.
And most important of all, he was brought into a circle of good, liberal democratic people, all of whom know that the purpose of life is to spread liberal democracy around the globe no matter how many millions of people need to be killed in the process of saving the world from non-liberal democrats:
Fellows expand their global network by connecting with World Fellows in their cohort and with other Fellows spread throughout the world. Yale’s campus also provides countless opportunities to connect with faculty and students over shared professional and academic interests.
Navalny left the Yale World Fellows Program a new man. No longer would he ally himself with Russian Neo-Nazis. No longer would he spew hate against Jews, “faggots”, and “black-asses” (the evil Russian term for those from Russia’s southern periphery). He would now spew hate only against non-liberal democrat Russians, just like God demands of us all. Alexei was finally saved.
St. Alexei’s mission was now a simple one: deliver to Russia the liberal democracy that its people want and crave, but that Putler and his henchmen refuse to allow. With the financial support of liberal democratic Russian business oligarchs of the 1990s, St. Alexei began to uncover the worst cases of corruption in Russian history. Russia had never seen such massive and brazen corruption before. In fact, it was the central purpose of Putler’s Russia. St. Alexei urged Russia to return to the economic paradise of the 1990s, where market reforms worked to improve the lives of all Russians, hand-in-hand with efforts to institute liberal democrat rule. Like the vast majority of Russia’s citizens, St. Alexei wanted to turn the clock back to the incredibly successful and utopian Yeltsin Era [The Yeltsin years were worse for Russia than the Great Depression was for the U.S.].
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