Donald Trump's inauguration has been moved indoors because of the cold, so good luck to him conquering Canada and Greenland. Or is he expecting the Russians to do it for him?
Of course the Russian Presidential Election was rigged, but Vladimir Putin would have won it anyway, just not by as much. At least two of the other three candidates, including the one who came second, would have been even worse from the point of view of the people who were making a fuss, and at least one of them would have been so from the point of view of almost anyone.
The former point, and arguably the latter, would also have been true of Alexei Navalny, if anyone much in Russia had ever heard of him before, albeit under prison camp conditions, he had dropped dead of natural causes as we fortysomethings sometimes do. We cockroaches survive.
Yes, Navalny really did calls us that. In 2021, Amnesty International therefore revoked his status as a prisoner of conscience. He had no more claim to that than Stephen Yaxley-Lennon has, although he was never anywhere near as well-known in Russia as Yaxley-Lennon is in Britain. And for all the undeniable dodginess of his lawyers' trial, they were indeed engaged in "extremist activity". They probably would not and should not have gone to prison for it in Britain. But if they would have escaped the attention of Prevent, then why?
The Russian presidential election had a sort of liberal righty on the ballot and a racist ultra-nationalist, so not one Navalny type candidate but two. They came third and fourth with 3.90% and 3.24%. It was rigged but not by that much. The second placed candidate was the Communist, why would the whiners have wanted him?
ReplyDeleteAnd those were Navalny-type candidates of whom anyone in Russia had ever heard. Unlike Navalny. They would have done better in a fair fight, but they would still have been nowhere near winning.
DeleteAmerican corporations are already ditching woke policies and declaring “DEI is dead” and there’s already peace in the Middle East before his inauguration has even begun.
ReplyDeleteNot a bad start. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/01/19/dei-is-dead-diversity-policies-erased-american-workplace/
He has two bases, and he is going to choose between them.
DeleteThey would have done better in a fair fight, but they would still have been nowhere near winning.
ReplyDeleteBecause Russia has a completely state-controlled media which tells the people only what Putin decrees they be told.
As I said.
DeleteThe mass deportations are about to begin and he’s vowed even churches won’t be exempt from immigration raids, and this week’s executive orders will be huge.
ReplyDeleteThe Right is back in America.
He is going to alienate one of his bases, and probably both.
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