A Martyr in the Making...

Honest Question:  After doctors last year confirmed that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned, and after initial delay in transferring him out of country to a German hospital where his life was saved ...why did Navalny choose to put his life at risk again, return to Russia and remain vocally critical of strongman Vladmir Putin?  I don't understand that reasoning, what Navalny was hoping to accomplish with his return.

If Navalny is given international medical attention now, and comes off his hunger strike, or -- the most merciful solution -- his prison sentence is commuted and Navalny permanently expelled to improve his health elsewhere,  will he agree to end the seemingly suicide wish and practice his vocal criticism in a safer environment, outside of Russia perhaps?

The Kremlin has long tried to stifle Mr. Navalny, sometimes with brief stints in jail. Last August, however, the game radically changed when Mr. Navalny fell grievously ill on a flight over Siberia from what was later identified by Western experts as poisoning with the nerve agent Novichok. An independent investigation concluded that the attempt on Mr. Navalny’s life was the work of a group of Russian secret agents who had long been shadowing him.

After several months of treatment in Germany, Mr. Navalny courageously returned to Russia, knowing that this almost certainly would mean arrest. It did, and Mr. Navalny soon ended up in a notoriously harsh penal colony 60 miles east of Moscow, exposed to acute mental and physical torment.

Courageously, or stupidly? Let's be honest...