To Be Fair: United Russia Won the Electoral Comedy. Putin's Drones Want to Celebrate Success in Our Sky
We can hardly consider it a coincidence that secret services across European states are publishing warnings about plans to expand the military aggression of Putin's regime to other European countries with freshly counted election results in Russia. However, the parody of elections may soon acquire a bitter taste.
That Putin's party would again win in the results was absolutely clear long in advance, so those interested in the electoral events in Russia had no choice but to watch what result Putin would determine for himself.
Since he was bothering with the whole electoral charade anyway, he didn't scrimp too much and awarded his party a comfortable constitutional majority. The result of over 57% may not seem so unambiguous to us for a dictator of Putin's regime, but we must keep in mind that the minds of Russian citizens are controlled by Russian propaganda and the entire Potemkin village must be a credible façade.
Putin poured himself just enough votes for a constitutional majority
Of course, everything takes place with regard to the fact that Russia has been a police state for many years, where security forces can harass an ordinary person quite arbitrarily. Starting with passport control when entering a train station building - one doesn't have to travel anywhere, they might just want newspapers from the station kiosk (tested on my own skin) - all the way to involuntary stays in concentration camps in Siberia, from which representatives of the political opposition do not return alive.
Political scientists from freer parts of the world have thus noticed with interest, for example, the "vote stuffing curve". In districts where voter turnout was high, United Russia won overwhelmingly. Meanwhile, when artificial votes are added, the other parties' votes do not increase proportionally to the population pattern.
The farce also has "Potemkin districts" where elections are conducted fairly. There it is common for United Russia candidates to fail. However, they don't need to cry over lost earnings, as there are plenty of ballots to thicken the soup in other ballot boxes. But in order to also have some honest votes, it is estimated that the party's real result is 34%, and for the campaign spot, even a star with million-dollar income in American dollars provides a cameo. The evasions of Alexander Ovechkin before journalists in Washington then proceed in typical hockey English.
Of course, we're not talking about the fact that the most prominent opposition led by the anti-war party Yabloko was long ago excluded from real political life in Russia, and the alternative to the regime party was only its proxy parties.
Russia is far from finished with warfare
Current elections in this spirit did not take place in Russia for the first time. However, with the bloody war that Russians unleashed in Ukraine, the electoral comedy there is taking on a very bitter taste. Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk warned most emotionally in Europe against consuming the spoiled soup.
Since he studied history and wrote several historical books himself (similarly to his political opponent, Polish President Karol Nawrocki), he recalled the USSR's attack on Poland at the beginning of World War II, as it is well known that Stalin was Hitler's ally in the first years of the war.
Vladimir Putin actively embraces Stalin's legacy, and fighter jets from our northern neighbor had to be scrambled to the Polish border in response to his drones.
Russia does not have an army that could march into Central Europe and occupy it entirely, as it did in 1945. However, according to available information, it intends to escalate its aggression in this direction. Drones and missiles will be exploding on Polish borders or in the territory of the Baltic states.
Russia naturally has the Czech Republic in its sights as well. Agents of the Russian regime are currently actively operating here. In a similarly comical way to how Russian elections proceed, they attempted to contact the well-known fighter against disinformation Bohumil Kartous to use him in a propaganda video. The result was quite a funny video.
The current Czech government proposes to solve the situation with closed eyes while loudly chanting the word "Peace!". When we see fireworks over our own heads in future events, similar to Poland, the smile over the entire comedic affair may freeze on our faces.
Sources: author's text, commentary, United24 Media, SeznamZprávy, NATO, X, Facebook
