What use is Navalny being alive to Putin?
I’m only casually familiar with the situation, but my ignorance analysis is that Putin’s underlying message is “don’t F with me”. Navalny alive and in prison or dead that message seems to ring clear. Just curious.
I’ve assumed it’s the combination of having a lever on anyone who cares about him and keeping him around to make it harder for opposition to crystallize around someone else who isn’t as well known.
Point taken. I guess avoiding his martyrdom is the idea. It all seems as though the emperor has no clothes, since there is such little effort to mask what is going on and why — and what the possible outcomes for him are.
