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To: GoldenState_Rose

Do you think this could effect next month’s electins in Russia? Or are Russian elections fixed beyond the effect of anything?


10 posted on 02/15/2018 1:23:33 PM PST by BeauBo
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To: BeauBo

“Do you think this could effect next month’s electins in Russia? Or are Russian elections fixed beyond the effect of anything?”


Expect that if Putin loses, there’ll be a Dossier that was ginned up by Putin and his party, with the help of a discredited British spy, who gets his information from the Americans, that implicates the winner as an American lackey. Oh, and the Russian FSB’s higher-ups will have been all-in for Putin, and will stall and obstruct the investigation. You know, something completely original that no one else has ever done before.


23 posted on 02/15/2018 1:48:28 PM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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BeauBo, I don’t envy the position of Russia right now but the fact of the matter is:

The Russian economy is stagnant. It’s stable. Even blossoming in the big cities. Bad in the provinces, but not enough to warrant the kind of unrest that would pre-suppose some massive change in power on the horizon.

Russians are EXTREMELY averse to ANY form of unrest at this point, so...the question is not whether Putin will win, but how many people will actually show up to vote? (And this also keeping in mind the default vote rigging, ballot stuffing, et al. that is a given in every election there on this scale.)

Young people are under the impression Russia can have an “evolution” not “revolution.” So they will accept Putin for now with the expectation that change (of the positive variety) is somehow inevitable...

And following the election will immediately begin the negotiations for power transition, divisions, financial allotments and deals amongst the oligarchs, elite, etc...


27 posted on 02/15/2018 1:56:08 PM PST by GoldenState_Rose
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To: BeauBo
"Do you think this could effect next month’s electins in Russia? Or are Russian elections fixed beyond the effect of anything?"

I have a question. Who is more crooked, Hillary and her pals or Putin and his pals?

33 posted on 02/15/2018 2:11:29 PM PST by armourenthusiast (Trumperific)
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