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Kremlin (thinking to itself): “It depends on whether or not he’s alive….”
The embalmed corpse of Putin will win re-election in Russia with an overwhelming 167% of the vote. >

Weekend at Vlady’s >

Can’t wait for the sequel so we can all go treasure hunting! >

What a fking farse.  A Russian "election" has less credibility than unicorns. >

Hey! North Korea said they found unicorn bones in a cave so I resent that comment. >

What’s an election? >

Unicorn bones? >

Unicorn bones? No that's a unicorn erection. >

They don’t have erections in North Korea, rule simply passes to family members as they variously perish to mysterious illness. >

/angry upvote     Lol >

I guess you don't really need to announce candidacy when you can just say that you won. >

It'll be more dramatic when he wins with 90% of the vote and isn't even a candidate. >

He wins and is already dead. >

Jokes on you, he’s been dead for years. His altered carbon sleeves are the only ones who will fill in for the foreseeable future. >

Wonder if he got the Geko model. >

“Re-election” >

Did they mention if he was alive? >

Weekend at Vova's. >

He won't seek it, but "the people will demand" it with 112% of all votes cast being cast for putler. And being the nice guy he is, he couldn't turn them down, it's what the people want! >

Yes. 112% in favor. Three more terms. >

They can use the roster of KIA as votes for his eternal reelection. >

why even bother with an election charade we all know hell be on that position until he dies >

The elections are for domestic consumption. Realistically, before the war he would have won every election he ran in. He probably had greater than 60% support. He lied about the numbers to seem like he had much more support though. 
He also crushed any potential opponent, so it's not like anybody else had a real chance to run against him. 
To his supporters, the elections seem fair and that's what matters to him. 
In 2024, it's hard to figure where the country will be at. If the Russians walk away with any territory they didn't have before the war, he will probably win a majority of the votes. Then lie and said he won more. >

Yup. Same reason they let a couple of newspapers run narratives that criticise the Kremlin. So long as only a few exist and nobody is reading them it gives a false impression they have a free press. Of course even that slither of “freedom” was removed once the war started. >

Didn't this cunt more or less already declare himself president for life? >

Nah he twisted the constitution to allow presidents to have unlimited terms , plus it matters not but literally ask any guy Putin is the unofficial emperor of Russia , I am more curious about his successor and about what kadyrov will do >

meh, kadyrov is just a useful idiot for putin >

An idiot whom Putin allows to own a military inside his empire , only Wagner and kadyrov’s stooges , idiot or no idiot that fool has the ability to put Russia in a civil war.
Even Yakutia the largest republic inside the federation isn’t allowed such privilege >

Chechnya has a population of 1.3 million and it’s one of the poorer parts of Russia. Even if the Chechens were united under one leader they would struggle to hold Grozny if they fought against Russia again. >

Man, I'm already tired of explaining Russian geopolitics and demographics to these idiots. Redditoids buy into the Chechen propoganda harder than anyone else. According to reddit, zhenya and ramzan will rule Russia because they have a microscopic army, one consisting of 50k convicts and the other of a few more tik tokers >

It’s the same kind of hardcore geopolitical realist fantasies that convince themselves Georgia (with an economy the size of Haiti/Iceland) is about to move into South Ossetia and start a second front with the Russians there or alternatively who think Finland may reinvade Karelia. >

You're more likely to see Karelia succeed and try to rejoin Finland than you are of seeing Finland try to reclaim Karelia >

And yet Karelia would never secede unless Russia is in complete anarchy and the Kremlin is powerless. >

Dictators don’t get elected >

They certainly claim to. >

Alternative headline:
Kremlin declines to call process an election >

It is a Special Democratic Operation. >

"Putin trying to decide whether to hold sham election or drop the illusion and declare himself Tzar." - Probably more accurate. >

He is literally a dictator. There are no elections. >

He’d win if there were. Dude has huge support. Propaganda works. >

Propaganda, plus the elimination (arrest, murder, etc.) of all serious opposition figures.  Any strong political opponents would be removed from the field one way or another. >

“Re-election”.
The elections in Russia are a sham. >

It would be nice if the cunt was dead by 2024, we can live in hope >

I didn't know there was a choice to be had in russia for elections. >

There is a choice. Putin or gulag. >

It'll depend on how alive he still is. >

Oh right I forgot russia pretends to have elections. >

Sometimes I wish Reddit had a laugh button like Facebook. >

Because Trump is going to pick him for his VP candidate, surprising no one. >

Yeah, Trump wouldn't be the one sitting at the Resolute Desk in that particular power couple relationship..
He'd be the one on his hands and knees under it while Putin sits there. >

Russia and elections. Good one. >

Although the elections in russia are for show, if hypothetically they would hold 100% honest elections, putin would still win. Sadly. >

Sadly he’d win among the Russians even here in the US based on my anecdotal impression. Since last year, can’t tell you how many Americans of Russian origins have bluntly or accidentally expressed to me how they think the war is all the US or Ukraine’s fault. >

This is a result of centuries long view of Ukrainians as fellow Rus. For Ukraine to be anything other than a fellow Rus is an anathema because Kievan Rus was also the ethnogenesis of Rus and Russians. The Czar used to have the title "Czar of the All the Russias, the Great (Russia), the White (Belarus - Bela is White in Russian) and Little / Lower (Ukrainians)." One of the largest factors of this conflict is the increasing national separatism of Ukranian identity away from the East, and more towards the West. >

This article can't be right, Pukin already won with 98% of the vote... My psychic prediction! >

He’s not sure there’s going to be a Russia in 2024 at the rate he’s going >

To be fair Kremlin also declined to say if Putin will seek to live beyond 2024.