Friday’s White House meeting with Trump, JD Vance, Zelensky and others took place the day after a significant date – February 27. It was the tenth anniversary of the murder of Boris Nemtsov in Moscow.
Nemtsov was in his time the most straightforward and outspoken critic of Putin and the Putin regime. But he fell for a bullet that day.
Some time afterwards, I had a period when I occasionally wondered whether Putin should not be reconsidered, perhaps interpreted in a more positive way. Hadn’t Nemtsov gone too far? And I made some attempts, which may be noticeable in some previous posts on my blog.
But when Alexei Navalny was poisoned in August 2020, I realized that my “reconsideration” was possibly conditioned precisely by the fact that Nemtsov’s voice had been silenced. When Navalny was also silenced in February 2024, by his life being taken from him, I think nothing will be able to make me reconsider Putin.
Not even if the most powerful man in the world is pulling in that direction.
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