Who is Alexei Navalny? Behind the myth of the West’s favorite Russian opposition figure

Despite facing repression, Alexei Navalny is no hero. Russian writer Katya Kazbek reveals the Western-backed opposition figure’s real history.

[thegrayzone.com]

{Everything that has been happening in Russia over the past 30 years has been an echo of these events. Boris Yeltsin’s coup, that was backed by Bill Clinton and the US media, is definitely something people think back to a lot. Vladimir Putin was Yeltsin’s chosen heir and a continuation of the system that makes sure that power and capital are concentrated in the Kremlin.}

I will still argue that Putin is still the chosen puppet leader the west wants in power. All the window dressing going on is a facade. Everything in this interview smells of American spirit from Yeltsin to today. It's a mirrored version of the US in which Putin never really mounts any resistance against American empire. I simply see him as a double agent for the world ruling class in which Russia is used as a distraction. Just as Yeltsin and Clinton intended for him to be.

{I want everyone to realize that the overwhelming majority of western journalists are busy communicating their own narrative, which does not have anything to do with the real situation on the ground; however, it too often reflects the opinions of State Departments of NATO countries.

So judging the country by what you hear most often about it is misleading and dangerous. Honestly, I think the same applies to most countries that are not considered allies by the US and EU, but Russia more than others because of this new Cold War we have at hand.}

Cold war, unproven accusations = distractions = world class elite puppet. Putin didn't defend Syria from one plane coming into that country to spread death and destruction. All the people who have died there are innocent civilians, paid terrorist of the US and westernized countries, and mainly paid mercenaries. All essentially viewed as casualties to false manufactured wars for the profit of the world ruling class.

{It isn’t a liberal paradise, for sure, but having tirelessly compared it to the US where I’ve been working in the past few years, I have to say while nothing about Russia is performatively woke, the foundations set in place by the Soviet Union remain quite firm:}

In other words. It's still a state corporate ran sense of communism. Stalinism. Running just like our power structure likes it because it's the same power structure we have.

{The more significant problems that Russia struggles with are Putin’s weaponization of the orthodox church and nationalism}

Sound familiar? Just like we like it.

{So whenever you hear something about Russia, please consider what vested interests there may be in that opinion, who is telling you these things, and why. And just in general, whenever you’re interested, try to talk to actual people within Russia, preferably its regions, and not the pundits who get paid for pitting Navalny against Putin.}

In other words. As I have been told by someone that knows and spent time with Russians, they laugh at us for believing what we get that comes from our fake media about Russia. Very little we've been told from especially the 80's onward has been true. They have the same problem as we do though. They're being ran and controlled through the same type of propaganda machine we have engaged on us. Where a vast majority of their population remains compliant in the mild fake comfort zone of acceptance rather than fight for equality for the working class and society as a whole.