Portsmouth News

Let them get on with it

- Tom Gardiner

It now looks like the serial poisoner Vladimir

Putin has been at work again with German doctors claiming that Alexi Navalny appears to have been poisoned, well now there’s a surprise!

But when we take into account the ongoing mass protests against Putin in Khabarovsk caused by the arrest of its popular governor Sergei Furgal, along with the situation in Belarus and the AK47 carrying President Lukashenko a strong ally of Putin, it begs the question is Putin now looking more vulnerable than ever?

The most alarming thing for me however is the EU talking about yet even more sanctions which invariably always helps Putin anyway with his ‘it’s Russia against the world propaganda’.

By the EU involving itself in Russian and Belarusian internal affairs by openly siding with the Russian and Belarusian opposition parties, this will only provide both Putin and Lukashenko with all the propaganda they need to crush their political rivals.

At the same time it will make both men even more dangerous because their survival is all that matters to them, far better the EU condemn Putin and Lukashenko’s actions and just leave it at that for now.

The overthrow of both men must surely come from within and it will undoubtedl­y depend on what side both armies come out and support, for we could now be witnessing the beginning of the end for Putin and Lukashenko.

But for now at least the west should just let it run it’s course and see how it pans out or risk strengthen­ing the hands of both dictators.

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