The death of Alexei Navalny at the hands, and perhaps the orders, of Russian President Vladimir Putin was, according to a Hobbesian view of power, either necessary or not necessary. It is true that Navalny was a vigorous opponent of Putin’s attempt to turn Russia’s strategic orientation from West to East. Likewise, Alexander Solzhenitsyn was a vigorous opponent of Saint Stalin, an eastern oriental potentate who little understood that Russia belongs to the West, not the East. The Putin restoration of a debased Stalinism is perhaps his most fatal mistake.
Alexei Navalny and the Essential Burke
Alexei Navalny and the Essential Burke
Alexei Navalny and the Essential Burke
The death of Alexei Navalny at the hands, and perhaps the orders, of Russian President Vladimir Putin was, according to a Hobbesian view of power, either necessary or not necessary. It is true that Navalny was a vigorous opponent of Putin’s attempt to turn Russia’s strategic orientation from West to East. Likewise, Alexander Solzhenitsyn was a vigorous opponent of Saint Stalin, an eastern oriental potentate who little understood that Russia belongs to the West, not the East. The Putin restoration of a debased Stalinism is perhaps his most fatal mistake.