Washington lives in denial over Putin’s victory while gaming its own elections, by Tony Cox

It’s a pretty good bet that Russia’s election was a lot fairer than the U.S. election is going to be. From Tony Cox at swentr.site:

US rulers decry the lack of choices for Russian voters, even as they try to take down America’s most popular 2024 candidate

Washington lives in denial over Putin’s victory while gaming its own elections

FILE PHOTO: US President Joe Biden. ©  Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images

America’s legacy media and political ruling class have thrown a predictably massive hissy fit over last weekend’s Russian election, insisting that President Vladimir Putin’s landslide victory was “preordained” and “stage-managed.” 

Every protest and anti-Putin statement before, during, and after the election was amplified. Every allegation of misconduct was reported with zero scrutiny or skepticism. Washington and its allies decried the results, arguing that the vote wasn’t free or fair. UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron went so far as to call it “illegal.” 

The pearl-clutching over Russia’s vote was the most intense I’ve ever seen over a foreign election. It was so inordinate, in fact, that it reminded me of the nonstop media coverage last month after Russian political activist Alexey Navalny died in a Siberian penal colony. The same media that showed no concern over the death of US journalist Gonzalo Lira in a Ukrainian jail – after he had been tortured, at American taxpayer expense, for daring to criticize the Kiev regime – huffed and puffed for weeks about the death of a Russian citizen in a Russian prison.

Lost in all the hysteria over Putin’s victory is the fact that most of the Russian people like their president. The incumbent won over 87% of the votes, and as even CNN begrudgingly acknowledged before the election, a poll last month showed that Putin had an 86% approval rating. That compares with a 9% approval rating for Navalny, the great Western hope for destabilizing Russia, in a January 2023 poll. And by the way, it also compares with US President Joe Biden’s approval rating of around 38%.

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One response to “Washington lives in denial over Putin’s victory while gaming its own elections, by Tony Cox

  1. Gandalf Carlin's avatar Gandalf Carlin

    The impossible living conditions of the sodomite sewerpipe will bring about the dictatorshit of the bugs and podatariat?

    No comrade will have an extravagant or personalized pod as all are equal and the same.

    Go along and obey or get a short sharp smack to the head.

    Bromides platitudes gas lights about “our democracy” will proceed.

    Voter turnout will be 100% and thumbs will be brown with a fragrant muh vote smell to them.

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