yo shackler did u see that surkov interview yet? his transition to warlord is bizarre.
yo shackler did u see that surkov interview yet? his transition to warlord is bizarre.
Do you mean WarGonzo's Surkov and Borodai one?
I checked it and quite interested where did you get this "transition to warlord"... which re-telling are you going off from?
Since it's quite weird take. He is quite non-committal and doesn't reveal anything new. "Ukraine will eventually return back because that's inevitable historical trajectory", "nationalism is good", "Putin's rebellion against unjust world order", things like that, with general military/special services attitude to things.
They will get majority of the vote and seats. Be realistic. Pissed off electorate? Belarus managed to get more people in the streets than Russia while having 15 times less population. Electorate just sits and grumbles all day. Sure - there IS a limit. But that limit is far away and Putin has clearly shown that there are no issues with just dispersing protests with force.
They have sat at those ~10% for what, 20 years? With ups and downs? There is no future for commies.
Not when the polls, genuine polls, show United Russia at 30%. If they DO get a majority of the vote and seats it's because the outright falsified numbers ( and that doesn't happen quite to the degree you might think ).
Belarus and Russia are very different countries for a wide variety of reasons. Lukashenko has NEVER had any free and fair election, ever. He has always cheated, in a blatant manner, to win. Putin, sure he controls the media and has it portray him as a godlike being, attacks his opponents and has always had his vote counts inflated but never outright stole an election that he should have and would have lost except the 2000 one, and even there it was more so that the rigging helped him get over 50% to avoid a runoff.
"Life is one long series of problems to solve. The more you solve, the better a man you become.... Tribulations spawn in life and over and over again we must stand our ground and face them."
He already did that for himself with recent constitution changes. I doubt any changes in goverment (if they happen at all) would revert what was done. He is staying there at least until 2036, when he will already be 83. And if a part of population still wanna believe in the old evil West is coming mantra, well, not like we can change it. Though economy is in shitter right now, I really do not think majority cares anymore.