Putin's 'Oldest Enemy' Reacts To Tucker Carlson Interview And Alexei Navalny's Death

Piers Morgan Uncensored is joined by former oil oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who was imprisoned in Russia for a decade, to discuss the death of Vladimir Putin's opponent Alexei Navalny, Putin's interview with Tucker Carlson, plus he issues a chilling warning to the West.

Speaking exclusively to Piers Morgan Uncensored on YouTube, Mikhail Khodorkovsky said the Russian leader would have no qualms attacking a NATO country if he was legitimised following the next Russian elections.

He also discusses whether he fears for his life after making an enemy of Putin and if he thinks he will ever return to his homeland.

00:00 – Introduction 1:05 – Reaction to Alexei Navalny’s death 3:13 – Life inside Russian prisons 4:46 – Relationship with Putin after his time in prison 7:11 – Fallout with Putin 8:40 – Bill Clinton talks about Putin in previous interview with Piers 9:53 – Can Putin be trusted? 10:47 – Putin has a 'mafia mentality' 11:20 – Did Khodorkovsky think he would be killed in prison? 13:25 – Friendship and sacrifice 13:38 – Impact of Navalny’s death

Ciexyz: "The global elites are desperate to ramp up the heat against Putin himself since the West is losing in Ukraine.
The West wants the wealth of the Russian lands, the minerals, the control."

Naw, that's just nonsense because the truth is that the only thing anyone on planet earth has ever really wanted from Russia is that Russia's military stay the h*ll inside their own borders, period, end of discussion.

Everything else is just pro-Russians babbling nonsense to distract attention from what really matters.

As for who is winning or losing in Ukraine, one set of numbers I saw said Russians lost 16,000 soldiers taking about 16 square miles of Avdiivka, or about 1,000 Russians lost per square mile.
Another report said Russian serious casualties were around 400,000 soldiers in 24 months, or roughly 500 per day.

In the past 12 months, Russians have taken around 350 square miles of Ukrainian territory, at an average cost of nearly 600 Russian soldier lives per square mile of Ukrainian territory temporarily occupied.

Sadly, Ukrainian losses are also high, though it's claimed only 1/3 on average Russian losses and only 1/10 during Russian "Meat Wave" assaults.

Owen: "Has anyone rational actually thought about why Russia would want to deal with the millions of Muslim illegals all over Europe?
Its failing economy?
Why would Russia want Europe?
Russia has oil.
Europe does not.
Russia has natgas.
Europe does not."

If we listen to pro-Russians themselves, the reasons are clear and obvious -- Russians need a super-wide buffer zone in their "near abroad" against invading hordes of European LGBTQ activists, global warming extremists, transgendered child-mutilators, atheists destroying Russia's new-found religious piety, Protestants, Roman Catholics, Jewish Nazis, globalist-homosexual-financial overlords, the US CIA and maybe even NATO.

Obviously, with all those manifest threats, Vlad the Invader cannot stop with just Ukraine -- no, no, Russia's very national survival requires Vlad to permanently occupy every country once controlled by Vlad's KGB handlers in the Soviet Empire, for starters.

Then Vlad will tell us (or maybe not) if even that's barely enough of a "buffer zone" to make him feel comfy-safe and secure in his Moscow & Leningrad... I mean St. Petersburg, Dachas.

Somehow, I doubt if it will, but maybe that's just me.

</sarcasm>

One of Vlad's many luxury Dachas which require countries of "buffer zones" to protect:

Eleutheria5: "But I’m sick of repeating myself.
Once upon a time, Free Republic was where free debate happened, and there were well informed people exchanged information and ideas.
Those days are gone.
Instead, we are bombarded with idiocy here.
I’m done. There must be some other forum."

I'm an old man now, but I've absolutely loved Free Republic for over 20 years, and there's no way I'm giving up on her, so long as there's a breath life left in both of us.

There have always been lots of controversies aired-out on Free Republic threads, some them running to hundreds, even thousand of posts.
Passions are often high, the language is not always 100% civil, and sometimes moderators have to step in to keep us from metaphorically killing each other.

On the subject of Ukraine -- the whole idea that conservatives might think Russia is somehow the "good guy" and justified in invading Ukraine is baffling and abhorrent to me.
I don't know where it comes from, or why, or how suddenly 1960s era pro-Russian hippy peaceniks are lecturing us about being "neo-cons" & "globo-homo" whatevers... it's inconceivable, but still, I wouldn't give up on Free Republic, all we can do is our best to defend traditional Western conservative values.
It's why we're here.

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“I don’t know where it comes from, or why, or how suddenly 1960s era pro-Russian hippy peaceniks are lecturing us ...”

I know. It’s Russian Bots, Russian Info Ops and Russian Dupes (usually evangelicals and fundamentalists). When they take a side against America and its allies you know their loyalties are not with the US, the Constitution, liberty, self-determination etc.

Currently FR is looks like a Windows-XP computer without a firewall or anti-virus. It’s infested with malware and trojans attempting to influence US opinion to the benefit of an adversarial nation -Russia. My guess is they are big donors and remain protected from banning.

For those with years of training/testing in foreign info ops, operatives, insider threats, etc. it’s easy to spot. The ironic thing is the training focuses on the purpose of CI in protecting the integrity of institutions.

I do not think you read my post.

The concept of buffer is suspect against the sheer range of modern weaponry. Hundreds of miles won’t be of much use. I don’t know what gurus you read. You don’t need to do that. You can do your own research.

MGM140 190 miles
M142 300 miles
StormShadow 340 miles
and of course the basic cruise missiles
Tomahawk 1200 miles+
There are so many cruise missile variants . . . spend some time on the Wiki. (Russian technology in this matter is superior)

Poland is only about 600 miles across. Cruise missiles launched from Germany, west of Poland, can easily reach Russia, and that considers Belarus in between. Poland would not serve well as buffer even if the entire country were disarmed.

Obviously the Russian Oblast of Kaliningrad has a border with Poland, but that is not the center of Russian society. Though useful to note Hawaii is remote from the US and was not even a state, but an attack on Hawaii induced the US to war.

https://www.rbth.com/lifestyle/330666-official-residences-russia-president-vladimir-putin

Most of these appear to be state facilities, like Camp David or Chequers.

“So, do I understand correctly, this is how, in your mind, Vlad the Invader becomes a modern-day Confederate-victim, while Ukrainians equate to “Ape” Lincoln’s Northern aggressors?? “

No. The “Carpetbaggers” in 1990’s Russia were the Western Neo-liberal economic advisers and (((Russian))) Oligarchs like Browder, who combined with Yeltsin’s “Scalawags” to steal elections and rob Russia.

If you want an eye opener, read the Early Life section of “democracy activist” and “capitalist” Bill Browder.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Browder

In your originl post you tell people to make of it what they will.

When they do exactly that, you resort to arrogance and insults because apparently the opinions that people made are abhorrant to you.

It is a lie that Russia is losing in Ukraine. That untruth is no longer hidden as many western sources are reporting the debacles in Ukraine.

Free debate is happening on this thread and you are squashing it because others disagree.

Saying Russia is winning is not a compliment to Putin, it is a fact on the ground regarding their military.

I see people here who refuse to pat our own country on the back when the behavior of our leaders and foreign policy has become hypocritical and disgraceful.

We can’t be fixed until we acknowledge that and get rid of the globalists who have promoted the Reset. We can only speak for our own country and the Russians will have to speak for their own.

Lenin returned to Russia because he believed in Marxism and thought it would make Russia better. He wanted Trotsky to succeed him, but Stalin was craftier, and eventually killed Trotsky in Mexico. Stalin had his own motives which were to rule Russia and conquer. Trotsky believed in Marxism/communism for people everywhere.

“Many people may find it hard to understand why Navalny returned to Russia. Maybe on one level he knew that Putin would eventually have him killed outside of Russia, so he might as well fight from inside”

A Russian Air Force pilot defected to Ukraine, flying a Russian Air Force helicopter. From Ukraine he later traveled to Spain where receently he was murdered under mysterious circumstances. Putin’s teams of assassins are global in their reach.

dfwgator: "It’s because the US along with the rest of the Western World are no longer the good guys."

??? Seriously?

You don't like the WEF and that makes the whole Western World "bad guys"?
You don't like LGBTQ child mutilators and that makes the whole Western World "bad guys"?
You don't like "globalism" (whatever that is) and it makes the whole Western World "bad guys"?

So, basically, you don't like our Democrats, and that, in your mind makes the whole Western World "bad guys"?

Compared to what?
Compared to Christ Almighty, of course, we're all "bad guys".
But compared to the alternatives -- Vlad's Russia, CCP China, Little NoKo & Mullah Iran -- nobody can argue that we don't stand up.
In reality, there's no real contest:

Our real problem is that "good guys" lack leadership, and we expect that to hopefully be corrected this coming November.
Good leadership will deal with all your issues, it would have prevented Vlad's Invasions of both 2014 and 2022, and could help resolve that situation.

So, please, don't be condemning the whole "Western World" just because you don't like some temporary political situation.

"The concept of buffer is suspect against the sheer range of modern weaponry.
Hundreds of miles won’t be of much use.
I don’t know what gurus you read.
You don’t need to do that.
You can do your own research."

I apologize if I mocked you unfairly.
The whole idea of "buffer zones" is ludicrous and insane.
Nobody gets "buffer zones" with their neighbors.
We have no "buffer zones" with Mexico or Canada, and any suggestions that we should are pure nonsense.

Russia doesn't get "buffer zones", what they must do instead is make nice with their neighbors, make peace, be friendly, maybe even join the EU, maybe even join NATO -- we forget now, that's where Russia was headed in the 1990s, before Vlad the Invader became its ruler.

"Buffer zones" built by military conquest are an insane relic of the past, and Russians need to get over that idea.
If they don't, then "Russkiy Mir" will be a very unhappy place forever.

Reverend Wright: "The “Carpetbaggers” in 1990’s Russia were the Western Neo-liberal economic advisers and (((Russian))) Oligarchs like Browder, who combined with Yeltsin’s “Scalawags” to steal elections and rob Russia."

So, in 1990 the Old Soviet Union was an entirely corrupt Communist empire, right?
And in 1991 it turned into entirely corrupt kleptocratic group of federations, right?

Corrupt Communists in 1990 became corrupt kleptocrats after 1991, only now they hired some Western advisors to help them legally grab Russia's wealth?

Until 1999, when KGB LtCol. Vlad the Invader came along to elevate & protect some of Russia's oligarchs, while reducing or eliminating others and making himself arguably the world's wealthiest man, right?

And when did you say was the last fair election in Russia?

So, all this equates to "scalawags" and "carpetbaggers" how, exactly?

deforest: "It is a lie that Russia is losing in Ukraine.
That untruth is no longer hidden as many western sources are reporting the debacles in Ukraine."

Winning and losing are matters of definitions.
By every definition, Vlad the Invader lost the war he launched on February 24, 2022, but since 2023 has held firm against Ukraine's offensives.

At Bakhmut and Avdiivka, Vlad killed tens of thousands of his own troops in "Meat Wave" assaults and won a few square miles of Ukrainian territories.
Is that really winning?

Maybe.

In the meantime, the list of Russian losses in Ukraine is staggering to any sane person.
How long can Russians themselves keep this up?
Possibly for years, but certainly not forever, and for the moment, that is Ukraine's hope.

The difference is: if Russia loses, they just home, but if Ukraine loses, they are destroyed and killed.

So, given all that, which do you suppose would hold out longer?

Since the Ukraine war started a number of Russian oligarchs and big shots have been murdered by axe and knife, or window flying without a parachute. One guy traveling in Barcelona had most of his family murdered with an axe, and he was supposed to have killed himself. There were half a dozen of these cases, some in Russia, others overseas. His son who survived by being in England at the time said murder and suicide was absolutely out of the question.

Where in Spain was the Russian pilot murdered, and by what means/weapon? They had already tried at least twice to poison Navalny when he was outside of Russia.

This map does leave me puzzled.

Why are the USA, the Baltic states, Japan, South Korea, Greece and Italy, among others “mildly flawed democracies”?

Other countries on this map, which are called “full democracies” here, I’d categorize not as such (not mentioning any names, however...).

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