Poppycock. The main opposition is the Communist Party. They're all still alive and kicking and standing in elections. Even Navalny, was still alive the last time I checked. Whom I presume you are referring to, he's not popular in Russia, so he doesn't win any of his elections. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1109765/attitude-toward-…
Navalny alternates between exile and being thrown in prison; he's treated by the Kremlin the way the CCP treats the Dalai Lama.
Putin started with Chechnya, then Georgia, then Crimea, and now hes come for the rest of Ukraine. The signs have been there all along.
The US cares because 1) Sooner or later Russian expansion will run into American allied states (e.g. Finland), and because 2) EU countries are much better for the US economy than Russian-style countries (with no rules against IP theft and massive state-sponsored hacking farms, for example). So the US has a vested interest in not seeing Putin roll tanks through half of Europe in his dream of rebuilding the Iron Curtain.
Better to nip conquest in the bud than let it snowball, as we saw with Germany in the 1930s.
Poppycock. The main opposition is the Communist Party. They're all still alive and kicking and standing in elections. Even Navalny, was still alive the last time I checked. Whom I presume you are referring to, he's not popular in Russia, so he doesn't win any of his elections. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1109765/attitude-toward-activity-of-alexei-navalny-russia/
Putin has been in power for 20 odd years give or take. If he was so interested in conquest, don't you think we would have seen signs of it before now?
Again why does the US care about what Putin does in Europe?
Navalny alternates between exile and being thrown in prison; he's treated by the Kremlin the way the CCP treats the Dalai Lama.
Putin started with Chechnya, then Georgia, then Crimea, and now hes come for the rest of Ukraine. The signs have been there all along.
The US cares because 1) Sooner or later Russian expansion will run into American allied states (e.g. Finland), and because 2) EU countries are much better for the US economy than Russian-style countries (with no rules against IP theft and massive state-sponsored hacking farms, for example). So the US has a vested interest in not seeing Putin roll tanks through half of Europe in his dream of rebuilding the Iron Curtain.
Better to nip conquest in the bud than let it snowball, as we saw with Germany in the 1930s.