LOS ANGELES.–Vice President Kamala Harris, 59, met with Russian dissident Alexi Navalny’s wife Yulia Navalnaya in Munich to plead for more cash-and-arms for the Ukraine War. Harris made Navalny’s death in a Russian gulag proof of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s brutality. Putin was accused of ordering the FSB [formerly KGB] to poison Navalny in Siberia in 2020, spending six months recuperating in Germany before returning to Moscow in 2021, promptly arrested, convicted and sentenced to a Russian penal colony where he did Feb. 16. Navalny was touted by the Western press as a kind of folk-hero for his anti-Putin crusade, hoping he could eventually lead a democratic revolution to topple Putin’s authoritarian government. Despite touted as a pro-democracy revolutionary, Navalny was a garden variety activist, paid by a variety of nefarious charities, most likely backed by the CIA. He was a marked man in Russia for his subversive activities.
Navalny was manufactured as a pro-democracy revolutionary, capable of leading to the overthrow to Putin’s totalitarian regime. After he recuperated from poisoning in Germany, he was told by another Russian opposition leader, former Yukos Oil oligarch, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, to stay away from Russia. After serving over 10 years in a Siberian prison, Khodorkovsky was pardoned by Putin and exiled from Russia. He’s lived in Switzerland for years but has largely gone silent wanting to live out his years without a target on his back. Khodorkovsky begged Navalny to count his blessings and find a new life outside Russia. Navalny didn’t listen, martyring himself by returning to Moscow. Now he’s become a cause célèbre for the Biden White House to brow beat Congress into coughing up another $60 billion to continue Ukraine’s War with the Kremlin. Whatever happened to Navalny should have no consequence at the Munich Security Conference.
Harris’ presence as Biden’s surrogate at Munich was designed to use Navalny’s death in a Russian gulag a proof of Putin’s brutality. In reality, Navalny’s death was no different than any revolutionary locked up in prison, eventually dying for whatever reason. Listening to Yulia try to whip of hatred toward Putin and sell the Ukraine War with the Kremlin marks a new low for the White House. If Navalny had any regard for his wife and family, he would not have returned to Moscow for his certain liquidation. But using Navalny’s widow to sell the Ukraine War takes NATO’s eye off the ball when it comes to finding a way to end the destructive conflict. NATO has no interest in going to war against the Russian Federation. Nor does NATO have any intent to let Ukraine’s 45-year-old President Volodymyr Zelensky to join the Trans-Atlantic alliance to start WW III or nuclear war.
Biden and Harris can demonize Putin all they want but at what cost to world peace? Biden and Harris have already destabilized the post-WW II order for lasting peace, accepting differences with the communist system, engaging in dialogue and economic cooperation where possible. Biden and Harris have exploited Navalny’s death to rally more support for their reckless war against the Kremlin. No one thinks that Biden’s proxy war in Ukraine with the Kremlin will degrade the Russian military, certainly not topple the Kremlin. European Union officials had strong business ties to Russia before the Ukraine War, receiving about 25% of its oil and natural gas from the Russian Federation. Biden’s Russian oil embargo drove shortages and skyrocketing energy prices in Europe and the United States, fueling the word inflation in the U.S. and Europe in 40 years.
Touting Alexi Navalny’s death at Munich and using his widow to sell the reckless war with the Kremlin, Harris shows, if given a chance, she would follow Biden’s destructive foreign policy. European leaders don’t want to continue Biden’s proxy war with the Kremlin, seeking desperately to get back to normal diplomacy with the Kremlin. No U.S. politician or news organization should eulogize Navalny as anything but a common rabble rouser, seeking publicity from anti-Putin sources outside the Russian Federation. Martyring himself, Navalny showed not his commitment to democratizing Russia but to his own self-destruction. Dying in a Russian gulag, Navalny chose his own fate, certainly not to help Russia or anyone else. Glorifying his death to sell the Ukraine War shows for all to see the way Biden and Harris gaslight Congress to get their $60 billion for Zelensky.
Whatever happened to Navalny in the gulag, it had nothing to do with Tucker Carlson’s Feb. 8 two-hour interview of Putin. Navalny brought on his own death by trying to subvert Putin’s Kremlin regime, a garden variety self-described revolutionary who architected his own fate. Tucker’s interview gave keen insights into Putin, letting the West see the Russian leader in an actual interview, not through the White House demonization. Tucker exposed Putin as a intellectually strong leader, capable to expressing his views on a variety of subjects, very much in command of the Russian state. Contrast that with what everyone sees and knows about 81-year-old President Joe Biden. Does the American public see Biden the same way? Biden looks well-past his prime, begging for retirement, while he upends U.S. foreign policy and damages national security.
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
