Ukraine is the kind of democracy where all the opposition parties and opposition media are banned.
Also, the kind of democracy where the leader announced that the elections scheduled for 2024 were going to be cancelled, because, I don’t know, democracy isn’t an appropriate form of government during wartime. Something like that.
Now that the war is going badly, and they are running out of men of draft age even though the draft age is a soft sixty, Zelenskyy has moderated his view on that somewhat.
Now he says he wants to hold elections.
But only if his friends in the West can come up with another 5 billion.
Because voting is a really expensive deal, maybe even more expensive should he lose.
This is a man who owns dozens of homes in beautiful places all over the world, and every one of them is a nicer house than yours or mine.
Even before the, er, special military operation began over there (the War has been primarily internecine or Civil since 2014), Ukraine was hands-down the most corrupt nation in greater Europe, and that is still the case.
Elections don’t cost governments five billion dollars.
But golden parachutes for Volodemort and his best pals do.
You and I should definitely pony up.
Because Democracy.