#ReadingRussia – Eine russische Zeitung heute: „Assads Sturz bestätigt die unbestreitbare Tatsache, dass der Prozentsatz der Stimmen, die ein Diktator/Autokrat/Usurpator bei einer Wahl vor seinem Sturz gewonnen hat, absolut nichts bedeutet. Nichts von dieser ‚95-prozentigen Unterstützung‘ kam zu seiner Verteidigung.“ Steve Rosenberg für BBC News

I really don’t understand why almost all current dictators go on organizing those ridicolous fake elections they always win with numbers unknown to real democracies. Sometimes I think is just a way to flex their power to the democratic world.
It wasn’t like this in the past: neither Mussolini, nor Hitler or Stalin ever considered any kind of elections, same with most dictators in South America and Africa.

BuT wHy Do yOu kEeP voTIng TheM iN?? 

*Insert a meme of a head without a frontal lobe with one eye looking upwards and diagonally to the right, while the other eye looks down and diagonally to the left. Also the tongue is protruding uncontrollably and falling besides the mouth* 

I really don’t understand the joy of “all progressive humanity” from the destruction of Syria. The events in Syria mean the final collapse of the “Western Democracy” franchise. All over the world, not just in Syria.

That summary at the end about Trump’s fickle focus and changing priorities is kinda apt.