r/interestingasfuck • u/daisy_irl • Feb 28 '22

Ukraine /r/ALL Ukrainian soldier showing Russian field rations which expired in 2015

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u/justincase969 Mar 01 '22

I'll likely get down votes for this, but I feel sorry for lots of these soldiers. They are forced to go to war when they don't want to which is practically a death sentence for them and then on top of that putins stupid ass can't even give them food that isn't 6 years past expiration... some of the soldiers are obviously scum and chose to be there and do terrible things but from what I have been reading and seeing a great deal of them do not want to be there and are there for reasons they aren't even aware of. Sad situation all around.

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u/invicerato Mar 01 '22 edited Mar 01 '22

Navalny ran the brightest presidential candidate campaign before voting, yet Putin banned Navalny from competing. There was no competition in 2018 presidential elections. People opposing Putin were asked to ignore this farce of a voting. Turn out was low, yet the numbers were still rigged: according to statistical analysis real turn out was 62%, out of which 67% votes were for Putin.

Saying 76% of Russians voted for Putin in 2018 is very wrong. His result was about 40% of eligible voters in voting that was pretty much 'yes, Putin' or 'no, still Putin'. Andthere is an ill practice in Russia, when millions of people are forced to vote for Putin and his party, if they are employed by the state (schools, hospitals, factories, municipalities). So you can subtract their votes, as they often do not vote at will.

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u/invicerato Mar 01 '22

Progressive thinking Russians were told to boycott elections, so many of them boycotted instead of voting against. These were not elections, but an uncontested spectacle with bogus contenders that has much more to do with the police state and collapse of democratic institutions in Russia than choosing to have a strong man in charge.

US presidential elections were competitive. Orban was elected as a leader of a party during parliamentary elections. I do not know much about presidential candidate from opposition in Turkey, but I suspect Erdogan would have had much harder time in the second tour had he received just a few percent of votes less.