World Affairs Brief, March 22, 2024. Copyright Joel Skousen. Partial quotations with attribution permitted. Cite source as Joel Skousen’s World Affairs Brief (http://www.worldaffairsbrief.com).
PUTIN’S FRAUDULENT LANDSLIDE ELECTION VICTORY
No one wins an election with 88% of the vote, except in Communist-controlled countries. And as I’ve long documented, Russia is still a communist country, which controls a lot of fake “independent” parties to make it appear as a democracy. The “fall of Communism” and the Soviet Union in 1989-91 was a carefully crafted deception. [See the March 3, 2023 WAB in the archives for the evidence]
Considering all the massive protests in Russia against Putin’s leadership just last year, the world is rightly skeptical of Putin’s claimed election victory with 88% of the vote in this weekend’s election. His banning, arresting, or even killing all the most popular opposition leaders does tend to have a chilling effect on Russian politics—though it should have the opposite effect on the voters. If the skewed results hold, we’ll know Russian elections are about as fraudulent as our own in the West. The Daily Mail filed this report: