|
|
|
|
|
|
by will_brown
3213 days ago
|
|
|
>I'd just note that the US pretty openly interferes in Russian elections Ah yes, the famous counter-point from the Eastern-block. I'd just politely ask, what Russian elections exactly? Is anyone going to claim with a straight face Russia has open and fair democratic elections? I'm the first to laugh at the pointless US 3 letter agencies' misguided operations, but even they are not so naïve as to believe Putin would allow any actual legitimate political opponent, much less a foreign sponsored one. Any such individual, there friends and family would immediately be under investigation and then the individual placed on house arrest...and obviously that's if they were lucky. Putin does this with journalists, businessmen and certainly political opposition. It's like when I used to tell people Lance Armstrong was doping in the middle of his 7 championships and people would ask how I knew that, all I did was point to every Tour de France winner since the 70's, and they all popped positive, then people believe out of nowhere a cancer survivor comes and wins 7 straight while clean...it's a nice story, just like Russian elections. As dumb as it sounds just watch the Anthony Bourdain Russia episode where he has dinner with one such individual under house arrest and then visits Russian intellectuals in Siberia who live like so many sardines packed together. |
|
|