Tucker Carlson really might want to rethink how much he loves Moscow.
Is Tucker Carlson still in Moscow? I wonder if he was lounging in a café with his FSB handlers, laughing at their jokes while savoring a scrumptious pierogi, when the news broke that Alexei Navalny—Russia’s, perhaps the world’s, most famous political prisoner—hadwith Vladimir Putin on a guided tour of Moscow’s most sparkling sights. In videos posted on his website, he marvels at the, goes slack-jawed in a, and admires the Russian capital’s “clean, safe streets.
Until Friday, these videos seemed merely risible, the work of an ersatz journalist so naïve that he appears startlingly unaware of the long history of gullible Westerners falling for such cherry-picked displays of Soviet majesty. Yes, the subway stations are magnificent.
Navalny began his rise as an opposition leader in 2011, with widely publicized broadsides against the corruption of Kremlin elites. In 2013, while running to be Moscow’s mayor, he was arrested on false charges of embezzlement; still, he came in second place. In 2018 he tried to run for president, but Putin banned his candidacy. In 2020 he was poisoned on a flight to Siberia, where he had planned to meet with other opposition politicians.
He moved to Germany for further medical treatment but flew back to Moscow in 2021. Some were startled by his return, finding it courageous but self-destructive. Surely he knew he would be arrested—and indeed he was, upon arrival at the airport. He may have thought his jail time would be short-lived, that his followers would rally, that Putin would succumb to international pressure. None of that turned out to be the case.
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