The kind of democracy that only holds elections if someone pays them to.
Never forget Poroshenko banned the Communist party, and Zelensky banned the Socialist party. Citing that both were merely Russian puppets. Meanwhile both presidents allowed the fascist "territorial defense units" that ethnically cleanse roma, etc. to either keep existing, or just reconstitute themselves under new names (oldest trick in the book).
We are talking about one of the biggest nation-building projects the U.S. has ever undertaken, the mother of all long hauls. We now have a 51st state of 23 million people. We just adopted a baby called Baghdad -- and this is no time for the parents to get a divorce.
There was a lot of this type of discourse at the time. Libs have no memory.
Literally anything is a genocide now. Neat.
Genocide (noun): derived from the Greek root Geno, meaning bad and Cide, meaning thing
Ah but you see, Russia is bad and we are good. Even if we are doing the same things, we are doing it because we're good and they're doing it because they're bad. Silly tankies.
The kind of democracy that only holds elections if someone pays them to.
Never forget Poroshenko banned the Communist party, and Zelensky banned the Socialist party. Citing that both were merely Russian puppets. Meanwhile both presidents allowed the fascist "territorial defense units" that ethnically cleanse roma, etc. to either keep existing, or just reconstitute themselves under new names (oldest trick in the book).