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03-17-20, 09:06 AM | #31 |
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I may be mistaken, but wasn't Yeltsin the only leader in the history of Russia to ever voluntarily step down from office? Whats the chances if Putin were to step down or elections were held a transition of power would be at least somewhat peaceful? Whats the alternative to Putin?
I would hate to have to deal with this in my country. But there are some which require stable long term leadership to protect its own foreign and domestic interests. Yes, I'm sure things could be better but it right now it seems to work for Russia. As Markus would say 'its their headache', just as we have our own.
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04-01-20, 10:09 AM | #32 |
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https://www.ridl.io/en/russia-s-arme...NN8Zo7pcGxawA8
An interesting article. Posting here as this seems to be the "Russia" thread.
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07-01-20, 04:45 AM | #33 |
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Vote that could extend Putin's rule culminates as Russians get cash payments
You just can't make some things up
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07-01-20, 05:38 AM | #34 |
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I doubt he understands or actually cares what the word credibility means.
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07-02-20, 01:39 AM | #35 | |
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Russians grant Putin right to extend his rule until 2036 in landslide vote " .... critics said the outcome was falsified on an industrial scale." But then all competition is either dead or in prison, for who else shall they "vote" . Like in China..
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07-02-20, 04:24 AM | #36 |
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Reminds me of a comedy show skit where it showed a newscast from a banana republic dictatorship:
Newscaster: "In today's democratic national election, our beloved, all-knowing leader, El Presidente, was reelected once again by a vote of 1,385,493 to 1..." [Loud sound of gunshot off camera; hand appears from right of screen handing paper to newscaster...] Newscaster: "This just in: following a recount, El Presidente has been declared Presidente-For-Life by unanimous democratic vote..."... <O>
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07-02-20, 09:27 AM | #37 |
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Russia’s Vladimir Putin just got one step closer to being the widest
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07-02-20, 11:16 AM | #38 |
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Well someones gotta show Donald how to do it!
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07-02-20, 12:10 PM | #39 |
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07-02-20, 08:53 PM | #40 |
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I think there are people in the world that prefer a dictator.
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07-02-20, 08:59 PM | #41 |
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Maybe, but it does seem an awful lot of dictators end up being ousted by the very people they try to rule; democracies have very long lives, dictatorships, not so much...
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07-03-20, 06:19 AM | #42 |
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But how many of those ousted dictators are replaced by another dictator?
It would have been more accurate if I had written that there are people who prefer dictatorships as their form of government.
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07-03-20, 11:08 AM | #43 |
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I notice Putin is single, Hitler was single...married men live longer...find a wife who takes 'dictation' must be tough; and then there's poor Romanian Elena Ceausescue who 'stood by her man' to the bitter end...
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07-03-20, 02:14 PM | #44 |
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^ He was married to Lyudmila Aleksandrovna Ocheretnaya in 1983 and they divorced in 2014.
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07-03-20, 02:22 PM | #45 |
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Dictators do
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