Posted on 02/21/2024 7:41:48 AM PST by Twotone
A very significant political event occurred in Ukraine earlier this month, and almost nobody noticed.
President Volodymyr Zelensky, the leader of the war-torn country, just received approval from his parliament to extend Martial Law another 90 days. There have been many parliamentary extensions of the wartime mandate, but this one carried special significance because the 2024 presidential elections in Ukraine were scheduled for March 31, 2024, coinciding with the end of Zelensky’s five year term. Now that Martial Law is in place to cover that time period, Ukraine’s presidential elections have been canceled indefinitely.
There is currently no set date for a next election, as lawmakers in the Verkhovna Rada (parliament) have failed to entertain the matter. They only agreed that elections should take place no sooner than six months after the end of the war with Russia.
While it’s not particularly unreasonable to want to postpone elections during a devastating war, the case of Ukraine deserves a closer examination, given the series of events leading up to the decision to extend Martial Law.
In November, a former Zelensky adviser named Oleksiy Arestovych announced that he would be challenging Zelensky for the presidency, promising to focus on a negotiated settlement to end the war with Russia. Arestovych was fiercely critical of Zelensky’s approach to the conflict, maintaining that a settlement was in the best interests of Ukrainians. Far from a pro-Moscow shill, the Russian government has an active arrest warrant out for him.
Yet just days after his announcement, Ukraine’s National Police force, under the direction of the Zelensky government, launched a criminal investigation against Arestovych.
Furthermore, over the course of the devastating war, the Ukrainian government has continually centralized power to the point that no trace of a representative democracy currently exists in the country.
Zelensky has repeatedly sicced his national police on any and all current and former Ukrainian officials who depart from the accepted narrative of the war, which essentially amounts to fighting Russia to the very last Ukrainian, if necessary. Virtually every dissident from the forever war narrative ends up on the wrong side of a corruption investigation, or worse.
All opposition parties have been removed from the parliament, and all non-state media has been banned from the airwaves. The paranoia-infused government has even signed into law a measure to ban all new Russian books from being imported into the country.
Ukraine’s 2024 elections served as the last means of restoring accountability for a government hellbent on advancing a strategy of geopolitical seppuku, continuing to force its countrymen to wage war against a much more powerful neighbor.
Under the cover of the fog of war, the Ukrainian government has transformed into a totalitarian dictatorship, losing the moral high ground it once maintained with the public at the beginning of hostilities. When the war finally ends, the Ukrainian people will have to find a way to restore some semblance of the constitutional order that has been shattered in just two years’ time.
The Ukraine is now a leftist’s dream of a perfect democracy.
Test marketing USA nov 2024?
A large part of Ukraine is under occupation by a foreign military. It would be impossible to organize a legitimate election in those areas while the occupation is continuing.
absolutely
lol, the Ukraine propagandists just won’t give it up
Sure.... Zelensky cancels elections, uses war to pass fag marriage, bans and kills political opponents, shuts down churches.... but he’s the good guy... Russia bad
Despite covid restrictions the protests would have been massive(praised by MSM/with zero jailed by "justus")
Besides, it would have ruined all the deep state plans, using covid for their soft coup.
What a surprise! Let’s watch Zeepers defend the scum.
“ A large part of Ukraine is under occupation by a foreign military. It would be impossible to organize a legitimate election in those areas while the occupation is continuing.”
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Excuses,excuses. Lincoln didn’t cancel the presidential election during the American civil war.
The country we must protect at all costs in order to save democracy .... has just cancelled democracy. Well that takes off the pressure on us then, doesn’t it?
Britain canceled its elections during ww2. I guess Churchill was globohomo proxy war neocon. Wasn’t he?
“A large part of Ukraine is under occupation by a foreign military. It would be impossible to organize a legitimate election in those areas while the occupation is continuing.”
And naturally if there was elections, the outcome would be condemned by pooters because the areas under occupation could not vote.
See how that works?
“uses war to pass fag marriage”
yeah sure...
“Excuses, excuses. Lincoln didn’t cancel the presidential election during the American civil war.”
They were canceled in the southern states, so I guess Lincoln was a globohomo proxy war neocon.
I think we all knew this was coming. Probably a good idea as Russian forces are on the move, Ukraine is retreating, and Kiev is now a realistic target for the Russians. I expect they will move the capital to another city in West Ukraine soon.
Careful, with tens of millions of illegal aliens in America the same argument could be made about us.
How gracious of the Globohomo In Chief to selflessly continue serving his country as its Fundraiser In Chief even after his term expired.
Please clap!
>> I expect they will move the capital to another city in West Ukraine soon.
Why settle for half measures? Move the Yuki capital all the way to Brussels. Or New York!
Reading on far Left Reddit, most of those Leftists are saying Zelensky would win in a landslide so there is no need for an election. Based on what knowledge, who knows?
These people are dangerous and should be considered as an enemy.
It only took them about 4 minutes to arrive after you posted.
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