The Globe's Senior Internet Correspondent Mark MacKinnon has a news flash for us; Alexei Navalny is now Putin's "No.1 political threat - and a symbol of hope for many in the country."
I guess the good news is the narrative managers have quietly deposed Bullshittin' Bill Browder from that role, and not a moment too soon! The main problem with Browder's shtick is that, aside from being risibly self-serving, it failed to get any traction whatsoever inside Russia.
MacKinnon's fluff piece paints a glowing picture of Navalny's rise to imaginary influence. "Comparison's have been made between Mr. Navalny and Nelson Mandela..."
Really? The only people making such an asinine comparison are the aficionados of Washington's ceaseless regime change machinations. A more apt comparison would be to Juan Guaido, the US-sponsored stooge being passed off by the Americans and a handful of lackey states as the "legitimate" leader of Venezuela.
As a professional journo who does his homework, MacKinnon must have seen this story at Reuters. It discusses the latest Levada Center polling on trust in Russian political figures. Putin doesn't have much to worry about, at least from Navalny, who rings in at No. 6 on the list of leaders Russians trust the most.
Sure, the polls may call Navalny No. 6, but once you apply the secret Globe and Mail anti-Putin math formula, he mysteriously becomes No. 1. That's because their mission here is not to inform us of what's actually going on in Russian politics, but to reinforce the anti-Putin narrative that corporate media have been cultivating for the past twenty years.
Someday the curtain will come down on Putin's political career, but it's not likely the Russian people will ever choose a leader whose puppet strings are as obvious as Alexei Navalny's.
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