All the other opposition leaders came to personally congratulate Putin on his victory:
Zhirinovski, Putin, Mironov, Prokhorov |
In the streets of Moscow over 100'000 people came out in the middle of the night to declare their support for Putin:
"2 x 64" - A great DOUBLE slap in the dirty and hateful face of the West
Needless to say, the aforementioned "West" (i.e: the USA/NATO block) is dismissing it all as "fraud", "stolen elections", etc. etc. etc.
Anyway, while I do not have an opinion on the Ahmadinejad<->Khamenei power struggle, I can unambiguously state here the following: the landslide election of Putin in one tour is excellent news for Russia and the rest of the world. I say that not because I personally like Putin - I don't - but because that at this stage in Russian history he is the only political figure capable of strengthening Russia in all aspects and leading it through the very difficult times ahead.
For the West, the two "64%" votes of this weekend are, I would argue, a absolute disaster. Clearly, neither Iran nor Russia are likely to succumb to any CIA sponsored "color revolution". For all their very real faults and defects, the regimes in Russia and Iran are rock solid and stable simply because they are truly *popular* regimes, supported by an absolute majority of the people. That does not mean that Iran and Russia do not have very real problems - they both do - or that the current governments are ideal - far from it. What that does show though, is that these very real problems will be tackled by the people of Russia and Iran and not by foreign interests.
The Saker
PS: in the next days and weeks we are going to be submitted to a barrage of news "reports" claiming that these elections were rigged and that the regimes in Iran and Russia are about the collapse. This is what The Economist put on its front cover a day *before* the Russian elections:
I could choose the make fun of that kind of "journalism" but, frankly, this is getting tedious so I don't intend to pay any more attention to this kind of nonsense.
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