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Culture War Roundup for the week of February 26, 2024

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Now this is getting interesting

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13124393/Ukraines-spy-chief-says-Alexei-Navalny-died-blood-clot.html

Today, however, Kyrylo Budanov, the head of Ukraine's GUR military intelligence service, suggested his death could be down to natural causes.

He told reporters: 'I may disappoint you, but what we know is that he really died from a blood clot. And this is more or less confirmed. This was not taken from the Internet, but, unfortunately, a natural [death].'

That makes no sense. Why would the Ukrainian chief of intelligence exonerate Putin and also put an egg on the face of all of the western allies that pearl clutched so hard? What are we missing?

Funny how Epstein could mysteriously kill himself but the media are so sure that there is conspiracy behind Navalny's death. Navalny was in line with American goals for Russia, breaking it down into ethnic components with Russia losing its empire. The US wants to hack away at the fringes of Russia. Ukrainian nationalists aren't exactly hyped about Russian slavic nationalism as it largely includes them.

Navalny was in line with American goals for Russia, breaking it down into ethnic components

What?

I'm getting tired of your low-information default twitter righoid takes, could you increase the quality of your commentary?

If you disagree with his take, explain why he's wrong. Don't just insult people for having takes you disagree with, even if you are emotionally invested in the topic.

I disagree with his method even more than with his take. On one level, his communication is wack: it is not clear whether he makes a claim about Navalny's own beliefs and/or policies and platform, or Navalny's ultimate consequences that he speculates were anticipated by some American minders from the deep state. (Thus, "What?")

On another, it is like that because he's not invested in making a worthwhile contribution and just verbalizes some vague "based Putin cringe national traitor opposition" sensibility, where the opposition leader must have something to do with the breaking down of our holy sovereign empire into ethnic republics. This is worse than nothing.

Cool, cool. Say that and not what you said.