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This is what a post-Putin Russia should look like

Opinion by Alexei Navalny

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 Put your money where your mouth is.  Plenty of clean up needed in Cali and Chicago, plenty of Americans (women, children and vulnerables) that the MachoMen could be serving and helping with our tax dollars here at home.  

Plenty of adventure to be had without making false promises to defend the world while pushing destruction abroad.  We See You.

*(What does a post-Obama Chicago look like, say?  Are those results acceptable?  Can't we do better here at home before exporting that style of gun-and-run leadership abroad?   Are we fighters, or are we missionary men in uniforms, letting other people do our thinking for us?  What are our goals, and are they worth of fighting for?  Do we need to "fight"?  Or is holding a gun and making promises merely all our "men" have in them today because they don't know how to use other tools to build?

On paper, they look so noble and studly (look at their children/grandchildren/downline, dammit!)  In practice, America is the gym stud in a hard body that doesn't function well and is need of a lot of artificial "gym time" to build muscles that have no practical application in their daily world.  Cute, fun to look at often if only in disbelief at the artificiality, but nothing anybody who wants a healthy and long-lasting life should aspire to...

That's like wasting your days trying to defend the world, while at home, critters that have no business in a domesticated place are slipping in with the friendlies spreading germs that any smart person who understands the wild and the dangers of feral animals would put a quick end to:  Defend the homefront.  Repair and maintain our own leaky roof;  build homes for the non-feral whom we admit into ours.

Don't pretend the system will hold as it is.  People with better eyesight, who are more prescient, see the problems of living with inequality and a lack of parity for promise.  America had best keep our eyes on our own people and their Futures, because the social security system we have here at home, when it falls, will affect those who are essentially defenseless today.  We saw it with the coronavirus how vulnerable we are, and we are seeing it in the housing crisis out West.

God help us if a men like Ron DeSantis is elected whose only tools are hatred and division, and "punishing" others so that the rest might live in peace.  Sadly, the world doesn't work that way, never has.  Some cultures respect religions, or plurality in our communities, to maintain traditions that are inclusive and serve the whole.

America used to be like that.  In the best places, we still are.