You may not like it, but this is what peak democracy looks like
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~~Who is the third from the left?~~
PS: Sorry that was politically incorrect, let me rephrase my question: Who is the second from the far right?
Keir Starmer, aka Kid Starver and Kiev Sturmer
those are leaders of the free and democratic world right there . also why cant zelnsky dress normal
he's a method actor
To be fair, they're (understandably) under martial law which has been extended in 90 day increments since 2022 with parliamentary approval. Elections aren't to be held under martial law per Ukranian law, and there have been referenda to determine if elections should be held, which failed.
dont try to argue with the white army on lemmy. they cannot take any reasoning, lol. it seems like they dont know anyone from the proletariat and only care about spewing tsarist Propaganda…
How is Trump doing better than them?!!!
Have you seen the average yank
he's not
And the reason they haven't had an elections is because they don't want this guy to be in charge?
I wonder if I'll be down voted?
My favorite trope is how libs will inevitably start screeching about Russia when faced with the fact that their ideology is midwifing fascism.
You're saying that of they held an election, people would either vote for Putin or someone that is pro Russia? I thought Ukraine was united against him.....
This totally makes sense if we consider the fact that many westerners don't consider nonwesterners to be people.
Colonizers can't choose the presidents of sovereign nations anymore, the people there do the choosing now, and that makes the colonizers furious.
I'm confused by the comment? Putin is trying to colonize Ukraine. Putin mad because they had a free election to elect the person who is holding his own against an ageing wana be world power in a war going on for years that was supposed to be over in days. Also Putin rig's his own elections so him demanding is bit well, fix your own shit before you fix someone else. Oh wait Putin does fix his own elections.
You're overthinking it, my comment was purely about the picture you posted
The Russian Federation is not trying to colonize Ukraine. Their goal is NATO neutrality, and annexation of the four oblasts, which are largely pro-Russian. This is a response to the ethnic repressions against Russians in the Donbass following the coup of Yanukovych in 2014, and the ensuing secession of Donetsk and Luhansk and the civil war that followed.
The war was never supposed to be over in days. This was circulated as a means to humiliate Russia, but all talks of an attack lasting days either came from many years before 2022, or from the west.
As for Putin rigging elections, this might be true, but we also know that he is legitimately popular in Russia. The nationalists are most popular, followed by the communists. The pro-western liberals like Navalny was are in the minority and have no real support base.
This goes against my current view of the situation. The NATO expansion is somewhat understandable, not enough for a war perhaps, but unsure.
Care to point me in the direction to read more about this?
What in particular do you question? It's a complex and ongoing subject, so there's no one-stop shop for it. The closest I can do is point you to threads like this one.
Wow, it's like I'm on reddit all over again. Propaganda hits hard.
Can you elaborate? Since when did Reddit have a sizable communist userbase?
You are the master of fractal wrongness.
Putin is Democratic or what.
