Putin did not order the hit on Navalny, but he will be blackmailed into a coverup. (lengthy analysis

[matt819]

1. The key argument here?

"Someone of Putin's underlings, who thinks he's doing Putin a favor."

I can't follow the Navaltny story. My comment is that this is how Trump operates as well. DeJoy, for example, will probably be honest when he says Trump did not direct him to to destory the USPS, but he, along with all the other lickspittles and lackeys and sychophants, are doing just what they think trump wants. trump says mail-in ballots are bad; DeJoy makes the problem go away. (Same with the tear gassing of the demonstrators for trump's photo op - he didn't need to say, teargas those libs; but the minions knew that was what he wanted. Obviously, we have nutjobs who have opened fire in Walmarts because they firmly beleive they are doing trump's work. And we all believe, deep down, that trump saw the Navaltny story and thought, hey, that's not a bad idea. I gotta talk to Vlad about that. He's a mob boss. The mob boss doesn't have to say who has to be whacked; the minions know who needs to be whacked.