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Uhm, yes? They elected a comedian with no political experience or ties for f's sake. But I suppose that was some sort of rigged election or he's just a figurehe

• t-3 4y ago
  Uh, he's banned all opposition parties. Where's the democracy? He was a direct employee of a Ukrainian billionaire oligarch, plenty of ties, just check the Pandora Papers...
  • batter 4y ago
    What are you talking about? He didn't ban opposition, only pro-russian (and that is just small part of opposition).
    • t-3 4y ago
      Yeah? One of those parties had nearly 10% of the seats in the Ukrainian parliament. That's not a democratic move.
      • ImPostingOnHN 4y ago
        are you backpedaling from "banned ALL opposition parties"? it's unclear whether or not you still believe this is the case
• tut-urut-utut 4y ago
  Election where major opposition parties were banned? A democratic society where 40+% of population is not allowed to use their own language? When opposition leaders get arrested? Where almost a 100 people were publicly burned alive, and still no one is punished? Where right wing extremists / neonazi paramilitaries are incorporated in an official army and given a licence to kill, as documented by OSCE multiple times in eastern part of the country? And all that happened before this war. Just that they now fight Russians doesn't mean they are democracy, they are just a useful enemy of an enemy. And the list goes on and on, although only one of the mentioned things would be enough to consider such a country as non-democratic at least. I think corruption and a rule of oligarch is the least problem in a country like that.