If Matthew Rojansky ends up as Biden’s national security advisor for Russia, Navalny is as good as dead. Rojansky was the biggest cheerleader in D.C. for the Obama’s Russian re-set and Putin will see this as a sign that Washington will do nothing if they kill Navalny. https://twitter.com/NatashaBertrand/status/1381314745865805825">https://twitter.com/NatashaBe...

Just to get a flavour for Rojansky’s views on how to go easy on Russia, take a look at the oped he penned on expanding the Russian re-set https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/feb/21/us-russia-relations-reset-not-enough">https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp...

Here’s a debate that Rojansky participated in at the McCain Institute. He was arguing against containing Russia in favor of “engagement”

Here’s an article that Matthew Rojansky wrote for Putin’s Valdai club where the article is entitled “Vladimir Putin is the Ultimate CEO” and he praises Putin as a “competent manager”. I guess if killing his critics signals competence then Rojansky is right