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I like everything he's saying there.
He has a team of people working for him, so presumably if he's able to communicate in any way with them, he can get them material to post on his behalf.
Russia does not appear to be an effective totalitarian regime. For example, in the documentary Navalny, his assassination is thwarted when the plane he is on makes an emergency landing. If he stayed in the air until his intended destination, they say he would have died. While initially guards at the hospital attempt to keep Navalny's people away from him, he does receive treatment even if it's not optimal. Eventually, enough pressure is exerted on the hospital or Putin that Navalny is released and is allowed to leave the country for treatment by doctors who are free to treat the actual cause of illness. There is not complete control of airplane pilots or doctors to make sure that nothing goes wrong with a nasty plan. I think this rather fits with my concept of how Russia operates: Limited malevolence tempered by the natural incompetence of the corrupt bureaucracy and not every one is on the same page.
The broader question to me is their a credible threat of protesting and being against the regime in Russia. To me this is a key question on whether the Russian people support the war or are just afraid to protest.
And knowing that answer has a lot of geopolitical policy implications. Is Putin bad or are Russian people bad.
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