I am writing when not a single ballot has entered the ballot box. And despite everything, I’m sure I’m not wrong. The winner of the elections in Russia is Vladimir Putin! I have not consulted either Pitoniso Pito or Bruixa Lola. I didn’t need it. The pantomime organized to perpetuate itself in power this time has surpassed the most twisted imagination. In the schools there were alternative candidates to Putin, but they are puppets of the regime appointed to fill the crowd with pseudo-democracy. The one who succeeded them, the liberal Borís Nadezhdin, was neutralized by the electoral commission, and the popular Aleksei Navalni was killed in an Arctic prison. Incidentally, all the independent structures that advocated the boycott of the elections, oenagés, foundations, activists or dissidents have been labeled as foreign agents, which entails ostracism or prison.
All in order for Putin to renew the absolutist presidency for six years and continue the “special military operation”, the euphemism under which the invasion of Ukraine is hidden. The drama is that the Tsar of the Kremlin had no other choice. He needs the power to save his neck. No one knows as well as he that relinquishing control is his doom and that is why he will prolong the agony at least until 2036, as allowed by the law that he himself reformed.
If the pressure required it, at all costs he would consider appointing a lepaculus willing to put his face for the president, because Putin doesn’t even trust his shadow. His array of enemies is so long that any sign of weakness can trigger his downfall.
The alley you travel through has no reverse. Onward and without pause, a new step in the international tension, populism and repressive autocracy. The potinga that feeds Russian politics and soothes the shooting coincides with the 25th anniversary of the incorporation of Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic into NATO. But toast them, with soda, because the lies and Western arrogance that accompanied the expansion of the pact towards the East woke up the hibernating bear and many of today’s evils were born in that yesterday.
