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To: Chad C. Mulligan

While a cancelled election in Ukraine prevents Ukrainians from ousting Zelenskyy.


3 posted on 03/13/2024 11:44:14 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Robert DeLong

It’s not comparable.

Ukraine is fighting an invasion against a foe that flattened several hundred towns, and a city; that bombed a civilian theater which was clearly marked as having women and children inside; and which pounded a maternity hospital one week after a Ukrainian film crew proved it was still fully operating as a maternity hospital not as a base for Azov.

Its constitution, like the British constitution did during World War 2, and like many others, allows elections to be postponed until it’s safe to hold elections without making the general public an easy target.

You’re talking from an incredibly lucky position. America has come under two spot attacks in a century: Pearl Harbor and 9/11. Cry the rest of us a river. When the USA has to hold elections while undergoing sustained aerial bombardment from a determined enemy, you might finally get some real world perspective (or, as the rest of us would call it, common sense) and put in an amendment to the Constitution to allow postponement too.

Sure, Zelenskyy is exploiting a situation but that situation exists because Russia is hell bent on taking over large parts of Ukraine.

And, the same criticism can be levelled at the FAKE governments of the FAKE republics (LPR and DPR).

Don’t know if you noticed but they both spent eight years blocking free and fair elections even after telling the Kremlin that for two years straight their “existential threat” from the Azov brigades translated to a paltry single digit body count per month...

Over a 300 mile long front.

And now they’re holding elections they’re going door to door with gunmen asking folks to vote for Putin on the spot ... or else.


18 posted on 03/14/2024 2:08:12 AM PDT by MalPearce ("You see, but you do not observe" - Holmes to Watson, A Scandal in Bohemia)
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To: Robert DeLong

While a cancelled election in Ukraine prevents Ukrainians from ousting Zelenskyy.

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Ukraine can’t hold elections, “their democracy” is too primitive.(sarcasm)


49 posted on 03/14/2024 8:52:42 AM PDT by unclebankster (Globalism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.)
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