Apparently Putin’s landslide victory means Russian morale is low.
Other bangers from this collective of intellectual giants include claims that the massive turnout victory for Putin in Russia in fact demonstrates “things are not well”, "the economy is collapsing, “the military is resisting orders”, and “the population knows he is a thief”. Seriously they are literally writing this on Twitter…
Thanks! I’ll add that the hypocrisy of these propagandists is underlined when we observe their silence over Zelenski cancelling Ukrainian elections, which were supposed to happen this May. The West proclaims that the president who cancels elections represents democracy, but the president who wins elections overwhelmingly is an authoritarian dictator.
I wouldn’t even call it hypocrisy, as in both cases it is consistent with their conception of democracy, which is that if you bow down to western diktat in every way you are democratic, if not then you are an authoritarian dictator.
Their conception of democracy has nothing to do with elections or free speech or anything of the sort and everything to do with cowtowing to the US as the global hegemon and allowing western capital to plunder your country.
By that definition Zelensky is indeed a champion of democracy, as were Pinochet, Suharto, Somoza, etc.
Conversely, too much popular approval for a leader is generally considered to be un-democratic by supporters of liberal democracy, and they call it things like “mob rule” when a leader actually does what the majority wants. You see real democracies act in the interest of small minorities of moneyed elites and otherwise have political systems that are designed to be as dysfunctional and byzantine as possible which safeguards against dangerous “populist” policies ever being implemented.
I agree, they are very consistent. It is all about capital, if western capital has authority in the policies of X country then it is democratic, if it doesn’t then Y country is authoritarian.
It has never been about the people.
Apparently it’s okay for Zelenskyy to cancel elections because he’s fighting a war and therefore needs to keep power for national security reasons or whatever. It’s not a good defence but its the one they’re using.