Russia beclowns itself on Bolivia — alongside Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua...

It wasn't a big surprise to see Latin America's lefty states whining and licking their wounds after the ignominious exit of Evo Morales after a long near-dictatorship in Bolivia. The Bolivian tradition is to boot them out when they do something egregious, and this guy committed naked electoral fraud in the October 20 election for his fourth term. The protests were huge and fierce, the United Nations and the Organization of American States certified it all as fraud, and then the cops and the military joined the protesters. That left Morales with no power and, as of yesterday, out on his ear. It was cut and dried. Good riddance.

But Russia also joined the denouncers, pushing a stupid lefty narrative with a positively Pelosian disregard for the facts everyone can see:

MOSCOW (Reuters) — Russia on Monday accused Bolivia's opposition of unleashing a wave of violence in the South American nation and said it looked like a government push for dialogue had been swept aside by an orchestrated coup.

You don't expect Russia to make such a stupid move to join with such losers and denounce the outcome, and get...what? Genie's out of the bottle, and there's not a thing they can do to turn it around.

We all know that the Latin lefty states are mad for obvious reasons, with many fearing the same outcome Morales got themselves for their own election frauds. Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua — all big-time electoral fraud practitioners themselves, so of course they are yelling. Argentina — a lousy democracy with a lefty leader, and also a neighbor of Bolivia's, so probably stupid there, too, given that they are going to have to live with these guys. Mexico? Also a democracy, but mainly interested in offering Morales asylum in its own tradition of taking in gamy ex-dictators. But Russia? Why the heck are the Russians saying anything?

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