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Why did Putin kill Navalny now?

On February 16, 2024, Vladimir Putin killed Alexei Navalny.
He killed him cowardly and treacherously.
In a remote Siberian colony, where Navalny was hidden from the world,
cut off from family and loved ones,
starved and tortured.
And then he was killed.
Alexei Navalny is gone.
And to be honest, we will never be able to replace this loss.
The death of Navalny (I still have trouble pronouncing these words)
will forever remain a huge bleeding wound.
In my heart, in yours, in millions more hearts around the world.
We all understand WHY Putin killed Navalny.
Navalny was a real politician.
A man followed by millions,
a man for whose ideas people risked their freedom and their lives.
Navalny was everything that Putin could never be.
And Putin hated him for it.
But why did he kill him now?
Why February 16th?
I know the answer to that question.
And I have neither the slightest reason nor desire to hide it.
On this channel, as Alexei said, we speak the truth.
And we will continue to do so.
Alexei Navalny could have been sitting in my place right now, today.
This is not a figure of speech.
It could and should have happened.
Navalny was supposed to be free in the coming days
because we had achieved a decision on his exchange.
In early February, Putin was offered to swap
the FSB killer, Vadim Krasikov,
who is serving time for murder in Berlin,
for two American citizens…
and Alexei Navalny.
I received confirmation that negotiations were at the final stage
on the evening of February 15th.
On February 16th, Alexei was killed.
But let’s go in order.
After the start of the war, it became obvious
that Navalny had to be gotten out of prison at any cost, urgently.
We, as his team, could not but work on this, and we did.
It was clear that Putin would stop at nothing;
he kills people by the tens of thousands.
A swap was one of the obvious ways to save him,
but the task initially seemed impossible.
Alexei is a Russian citizen, a Russian politician,
he is not entitled to any exchange,
foreign states are not obliged to protect his rights.
But two years ago, a solution was devised that could work.
A humanitarian exchange.
Russian spies in exchange for political prisoners.
Such exchanges have happened before.
Investigator Hristo Grozev helped us devise and implement this plan.
He searched, identified, and exposed these spies in droves.
At the same time, we were preparing a list of Russian citizens,
Russian politicians, activists, fighters for freedom and human rights
who needed to be freed from Russian prisons.
Implementing this plan took two whole years.
It could have taken less.
With desire and political will, it’s a matter of months, not years.
But there was no desire or will.
Huge efforts, endless persuasion, weeks of waiting for responses,
dozens of trips, and hundreds of unanswered calls.
Officials, American and German, nodded understandingly,
talked about how important it was to help Navalny and political prisoners, shook hands, promised,
and … did nothing.
We tried again.
In the most desperate and insane ways.
Through acquaintances of politicians, through the wealthiest people on this planet
who influence these politicians.
Through Putin’s friends like Henry Kissinger
(I mention him, he’s dead after all, and he didn’t help anyway).
But there were those who helped, and very much so.
They did not agree to disclose their names, but I am grateful to each of them.
Some of them risked their careers,
and some literally risked their lives,
conducting unofficial negotiations with Putin’s thugs.
We really tried everything.
We’ve come a long way, and by the spring of last year, our plan was approved.
Everything could have happened then, a year ago.
But it didn’t.
It was an endless game of broken telephone.
For two years, one official hesitated to write to another,
someone misunderstood something,
forgot to mention it,
and didn’t consider it urgent.
But despite everything,
everyone was eventually persuaded,
and by December, the plan was back in action.
You saw its fragments yourselves.
I’m sorry, I couldn’t comment on it at the time,
but you can find traces of this near-exchange yourselves.
In September, The Wall Street Journal wrote about it.
Then there were more publications.
You saw that in an interview with Tucker Carlson,
Putin HIMSELF indicated who he wanted to get as a result of the swap –
the Berlin murderer (he actually calls him a patriot) Vadim Krasikov.
That person, due to patriotic sentiments, eliminated a bandit in one of the European capitals.
We are ready to talk.
Moreover, the talks are underway.
And he could have gotten him,
but only if he gave up Navalny.
After Alexei’s murder, I was told that
Roman Abramovich was the one who delivered the proposal to swap Navalny to Putin.
As an informal negotiator communicating with American and European officials,
and at the same time, representing Putin;
an unofficial channel of communication with the Kremlin.
I did ask Roman Abramovich, through mutual acquaintances,
how, when, and under what circumstances he did this,
what Putin said.
Unfortunately, Abramovich did not answer these questions,
but he did not deny anything either.
I tell this story so that you have an answer to the question –
why was Navalny killed NOW.
Putin was clearly told
that the only way to get Krasikov is to exchange him for Navalny.
‘Hold on’, thought Putin.
‘I can’t tolerate Navalny being free.
And since they are willing to exchange Krasikov on principle,
then I just need to get rid of the bargaining chip.
Then offer someone else when the time comes’.
It’s absolutely illogical, absolutely irrational, it’s the behaviour of a mad mafioso.
But the point is that Putin has gone mad with hatred for Navalny.
Putin hates him so much
that he acts to his own detriment and against his own rational interests.
After all, Putin knows for sure
that Alexei Navalny could have defeated him.
That Alexei Navalny is the future,
and he, Putin, is the past.
Putin knows for sure that thanks to Navalny’s investigations,
that he, his elites, his United Russia party, his FSB cronies,
are forever disgraced.
Thanks to Navalny, Putin will go down in history as a coward, a corrupt official,
a thief who sold the country for golden toilet brushes and an aqua discotheque.
That is who Putin will be in the pages
of the history books he loves so much.