One of the weirder parts of Trump and the Russians insisting that Ukraine have an election is…what do they expect the result to be?? It’ll either be Zelensky winning in a landslide or being defeated by a candidate running on a platform of “build nukes and torture Russian POWs to death on live TV” - ThreadSky

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camtreblig.bsky.social • 4 days ago

One of the weirder parts of Trump and the Russians insisting that Ukraine have an election is…what do they expect the result to be??

It’ll either be Zelensky winning in a landslide or being defeated by a candidate running on a platform of “build nukes and torture Russian POWs to death on live TV”

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aspirationalbob.bsky.social•4 days ago

Ye I mean if they want Valerii Zaluzhny that's how you get Valerii Zaluzhny!

camtreblig.bsky.social•4 days ago

My initial assumption was they want to rig it but…in whose favour? There’s not exactly an abundance of pro-Russian potential candidates, especially as Yanukovych’s people have all either become Ukrainian nationalists, legged it to Russia or ended up in prison

aspirationalbob.bsky.social•4 days ago

Well ofc, but as you say you've gotta have someone and theyve all been arrested or fled. Also can you imagine the killings the secret service would do in defence of that ballots integrity

camtreblig.bsky.social•3 days ago

I mean, maybe they could pull in a literal rando off the street, spend billions on internet advertising and make that person dance on TikTok or something, but it doesn’t seem very likely to go anywhere, does it?

camtreblig.bsky.social•4 days ago

Plus it’s hardly an inviting offer to a perspective Quisling, is it? “How do you fancy being president for 3 hours before the military launches a coup and you end up in front of a firing squad?”

aspirationalbob.bsky.social•4 days ago

They've got a lot more guns now than they had at Maidan

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