Putin's Election Plan is Backfiring

Newsweek ^ | Feb. 6, 2024 | Isabel van Brugen

[canuck_conservative]

Kremlin thought they could let Boris Nadezhdin run against Putin, and the Russian Public would rush to support Putin, making the election a de-facto supportive referendum on the War

Oops ... instead, the public is supporting Nadezhdin, and saying how unpopular the War is with them

So now the Kremlin will play its usual dirty tricks and disqualify Nadezhdin for having too many dead people, or not enough signatures, etc.

The fix is in! This guy is making Putin look bad!

We'll find out on Wednesday ...

[Timber Rattler]

Yes indeed! Nadezhdin will probably soon become Navalny’s cellmate in the Arctic, or else have a sudden, unexpected fall out of a skyscraper window.

[escapefromboston]

Surprised that Putin and Biden don’t get along since they have so much in common

[tlozo]

Putin's Election Plan is Backfiring

[tlozo]

A German specialist on Ukraine, Mattia Nelles, recently published a visual infographic detailing the losses suffered by the Russian Federation in the full-scale war. According to Nelles' calculations, the Black Sea Fleet has already lost 20% of the vessels.

[Zhang Fei]

Given what happened to Boris Nemtzov and then Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the guy’s clearly got nerves of steel

[wny]

he should try mail in ballots...it worked for biden...

[JonPreston]

I think his election is safe, he’s up by 70 points.

[DesertRhino]

LOL, the deep state loves their Khodorkovsky butt boys.

[gibsonguy]

Thank you for the reality check.

[Texas Fossil]

NewsWeek is consistently Propaganda.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

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[mass55th]

"Surprised that Putin and Biden don’t get along since they have so much in common"

I didn't know Putin was a pedo like Joe. How'd I miss that?

[tlozo]

I didn't know Putin was a pedo like Joe. How'd I miss that?

Ex-KGB spy was killed because he claimed Putin was a pedophile

Vladimir Putin was furious when one of his former spies, Alexander Litvinenko, publicly called him a pedophile in 2006 — a slur that likely spurred the Russian leader to order the dissident’s assassination in London four months later, a British report concluded on Thursday.

Litvinenko, who had lived under asylum in Britain since 2000, after defecting from the FSB — the KGB’s successor agency — had ignited Putin’s outrage by claiming on a Russian-language Web site that the spy agency once possessed videotapes showing Putin “making sex with some underage boys.”

https://nypost.com/2016/01/21/murdered-ex-spy-accused-putin-of-pedophilia/

[hardspunned]

Oh no! His margin of victory could be reduced. Any little bit of positive disinfo your media masters could muster helps the poor warmongering but doubting MIC stooges.

[mass55th]

Do you frequent UMCRevMom’s threads?

[Nextrush]

More CIA projection isn’t this what’s happening to Joe Biden.

[Nextrush]

The CIA knows a lot about pedos IMHO so they can write up some good fake stories about Putin.

[canuck_conservative]

His margin of victory could be reduced

It's a pre-rigged "election", so they can make the result whatever they want (just like the bogus Dobas referendums)

The problem for Putin is that leaving Nadezhdin in the campaign gives the Public a legal way to protest against the War, by supporting him - whereas if they just openly oppose the War, they go to jail

The War is already highly unpopular in Russia, and Nadezhdin in the campaign would exacerbate that ... so the Kremlin has to find some feeble excuse to disqualify him

This is what insecure dictatorships do

[rxh4n1]

37% would reverse the decision. That’s encouraging. What of the other 63 per cent?