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You wrong on all accounts. Putin has never had fair elections in the first place. He was appointed first and ran as an incumbent already. He never held a singl
by rudnevr 5y ago
You wrong on all accounts.
Putin has never had fair elections in the first place. He was appointed first and ran as an incumbent already. He never held a single public debate with any of his opponents. He never faced a single opposition TV channel. Shutting down TV was his first term agenda. He never faced a single popular opposition leader competition, because they've been always excluded from elections in the first place.
And no, Ukraine rates better than Russia in corruption. Not saying Ukraine is a true democracy, which means the power was passed to opposition multiple times.
- Grustaf 5y agoI’m saying he probably WOULD win a hypothetical fair election. Or rather, that even my non-Putinist friends think so. Do you have any evidence that this is not the case? Even this brutal war on a brother nation has popular support according to surveys https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/03/08/russia-public-opinion-ukraine-invasion/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/03/08/russia-publi.... Presumably Putin is not less popular than this.