The sudden death of popular opposition leader Alexei Navalny in an Arctic penal colony and a Russian advance in Ukraine last week have ratcheted up concern that an emboldened Vladimir Putin may be contemplating a new phase of global aggression.
Putin rarely acts without considering the symbolism or the ripple effect it could have. If he was involved in Navalny's death, why might he have chosen to do it now? We don't know that Putin gave a direct order to kill Navalny on Feb. 16.
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