{"id":1328053,"date":"2022-02-22T16:09:35","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T21:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1328053"},"modified":"2022-02-22T16:10:24","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T21:10:24","slug":"political-prisoner-navalny-drunk-granddad-putin-sending-russia-into-another-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/political-prisoner-navalny-drunk-granddad-putin-sending-russia-into-another-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Prisoner Navalny: \u2018Drunk Granddad\u2019 Putin Sending Russia into Another Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpolitical-prisoner-navalny-drunk-granddad-putin-sending-russia-into-another-afghanistan%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1328053&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\"><span>Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny jeered at his nemesis Vladimir Putin for holding a stage-managed Security Council session Monday, a prelude to Putin declaring two regions of eastern Ukraine to be \u201cindependent\u201d and sending in Russian troops to \u201cprotect\u201d them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Navalny wrote a string of tweets in which he dismissed Putin\u2019s Security Council as a \u201cgathering of dotards and thieves\u201d and compared Putin to Grandpa Navalny \u201cgetting drunk at a family celebration and annoying everyone with his stories about how world politics actually works.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>\u201cIt would be funny if the drunk grandfather was not a man of 69 who holds power in a country with nuclear weapons,\u201d Navalny wrote.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">1\/16 Yesterday I watched the \u201csession of the Security Council\u201d, this gathering of dotards and thieves (it seems to me that our Anti-Corruption Foundation has done investigations into the corruption of every single one of them).<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Alexey Navalny (@navalny) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/navalny\/status\/1496098720076767236?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 22, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>Navalny compared Putin and his Security Council setting up their Ukraine incursion to the \u201cgathering of nomenklatura dotards\u201d from the Soviet Union who saw themselves as players at the \u201cgrand chessboard\u201d of geopolitics in the early 1980s and decided the smart move was to \u201csend Soviet troops into Afghanistan.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_19971170\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1190112229.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-19971170 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1190112229-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt=\"TOPSHOT - This photo taken on November 28, 2019 shows an Afghan boy playing on the wreckage of a Soviet-era tank alongside a road on the outskirts of Kabul. - December 2019 marks the 40th anniversary of the Soviet Union&#039;s \" intervention \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>This photo taken on November 28, 2019 shows an Afghan boy playing on the wreckage of a Soviet-era tank alongside a road on the outskirts of Kabul. (NOORULLAH SHIRZADA\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>\u201cThe result was hundreds of thousands of victims, injuries to entire nations, the consequences of which both we and Afghanistan still cannot overcome, and the emergence of one of the key reasons for the collapse of the USSR,\u201d Navalny argued.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19971162\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1232068507.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-19971162 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1232068507-1024x681-1.jpg\" alt=\"A bird sits on a tree next to a monument to Soviet soldiers killed in action in Afghanistan during Soviet invasion of 1979-1989 at Moscow&#039;s Poklonnaya Hill War Memorial Park on April 2, 2021. - For the decade a total of 620,000 Soviet soldiers served with the forces in Afghanistan. The total irrecoverable personnel losses of the Soviet Armed Forces amounted about to 15,000. (Photo by Alexander NEMENOV \/ AFP) (Photo by ALEXANDER NEMENOV\/AFP via Getty Images)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>A bird sits on a tree next to a monument to Soviet soldiers killed in action in Afghanistan during Soviet invasion of 1979-1989 at Moscow\u2019s Poklonnaya Hill War Memorial Park on April 2, 2021. For the decade a total of 620,000 Soviet soldiers served with the forces in Afghanistan. The total irrecoverable personnel losses of the Soviet Armed Forces amounted about to 15,000. (ALEXANDER NEMENOV\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>Navalny said Putin\u2019s government sees the Ukraine incursion as a way to \u201cdivert the attention of the people of Russia from real problems \u2013 the development of the economy, rising prices, reigning lawlessness\u201d by infusing the population with \u201cimperial hysteria.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19913154\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/ukraine-tensions-photo-video-by-russian-defense-ministry-press-service-wednesday-feb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19913154\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/ukraine-tensions-photo-video-by-russian-defense-ministry-press-service-wednesday-feb.jpg\" alt=\"The Associated Press\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1050\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>In this photo taken from video provided by the Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022, Russian army tanks are loaded onto railway platforms to move back to their permanent base after drills in Russia. Russia says it is returning more troops and weapons to bases, but NATO says it sees no sign of a drawdown as fears that Moscow could invade Ukraine soon persist. Russia has massed about 150,000 troops east, north and south of Ukraine. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>\u201cBare propaganda is no longer enough for the senile thieves. They want blood. They want to move around tank figurines on a map of hostilities,\u201d he charged.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Navalny warned that Putin\u2019s belligerent speech challenging the legitimacy of Ukraine as an independent nation could be easily adapted to other regions Russia wishes to dominate, from Belarus and the Baltic states to Azerbaijan, which recently scored a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/news\/trauma-stigma-plague-soldiers-a-year-after-karabakh-war\/\"><span>military victory<\/span><\/a><span> against Russia\u2019s security client Armenia. Perhaps not coincidentally, Putin <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.armradio.am\/2022\/02\/21\/russias-putin-invites-armenian-pm-to-moscow-for-official-visit\/\"><span>invited<\/span><\/a><span> Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan to visit Moscow during a phone conversation on Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Navalny accused Putin of squandering Russia\u2019s potential for \u201cpowerful development in the 21st Century,\u201d with resources ranging from \u201coil to educated citizens,\u201d in a mad pursuit of \u201cwar, dirt, lies, and the palace with golden eagles in Gelendzhik.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>Gelendzhik is the lavish and secretive estate, allegedly built by billionaire Russian oligarchs as a tribute to Putin, that was <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2021\/01\/20\/imprisoned-russian-dissident-navalny-publishes-putin-corruption-report\/\"><span>exposed<\/span><\/a><span> by Navalny\u2019s anti-corruption foundation in January 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Navalny concluded by urging the Russian people to rise up against Putin and his \u201ckleptocrats,\u201d who he described as the true enemies of Russia and the \u201cmain threat\u201d to its future, not Ukraine, America, or Europe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cPutin kills, and wants to kill more,\u201d Navalny told the Russian populace. \u201cThe Kremlin is making you poorer, not Washington. It is not in London that economic policy is being conducted in such a way that a pensioner\u2019s \u2018borscht set\u2019 has doubled in price, but in Moscow.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Navalny has been <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/news\/navalny-plans-to-return-to-russia-after-recovery-in-germany\/\"><span>imprisoned<\/span><\/a><span> ever since he returned to Moscow in early 2021 from Germany, where he received treatment after Putin\u2019s agents tried to murder him with chemical weapons. Navalny was arrested for allegedly violating the terms of his parole from a previous embezzlement conviction by leaving the country. Navalny maintains the embezzlement charges were trumped up as a means of silencing him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>On Tuesday, at a closed-door trial held inside the Pokrov prison where he is being held, prosecutors <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/ukraine-russia-seeks-extend-alexei-navalny-jail-putin-1681190\"><span>added<\/span><\/a><span> new charges of fraud and contempt of court that could extend Navalny\u2019s three-year sentence to 15 years. Navalny\u2019s allies claim the Putin regime pressured donors to his anti-corruption organization into pressing \u201cabsurd\u201d charges of fraud against him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe believe the persecution of Navalny is illegal, is distinctly political in nature, and aimed at discrediting and removing him from political activity,\u201d said his lawyer Olga Mikahailova.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny jeered at his nemesis Vladimir Putin for holding a stage-managed Security Council session Monday, a prelude to Putin declaring two regions of eastern Ukraine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1328053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1328053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1328053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1328053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1328053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}