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JustAnotherGen

(38,109 posts)
Mon Aug 18, 2025, 02:21 PM Aug 2025

Zelensky - Can't hold elections during a war

Did anyone else catch that?

One of Krasnov's toadies asked if there was peach - would Zelensky hold elections.


And Krasnov is like 'Hmm so you can't have a elections during a war. That's very interesting'


Paraphrasing. But the gist of it all.

What does he find interesting about that?

And why isn't the s.ob. dead yet? Like - can he just fucking die already.

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Zelensky - Can't hold elections during a war (Original Post) JustAnotherGen Aug 2025 OP
he found it interesting NJCher Aug 2025 #1
Spirit of Life JustAnotherGen Aug 2025 #2
)))✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️((( Protection for Prs Zelenskyy electric_blue68 Aug 2025 #10
Absolutely! SheltieLover Aug 2025 #7
He already knows that. He's been told many times before that the Ukrainian Constitution does not Wiz Imp Aug 2025 #3
I think the question JustAnotherGen Aug 2025 #5
Probably correct. If it was asked by an explicitly right wing outlet, then it was definitely a plant. Wiz Imp Aug 2025 #6
I think it was Doocy KentuckyWoman Aug 2025 #14
It's pronounced JustAnotherGen Aug 2025 #15
Specifically during martial law. TheProle Aug 2025 #9
Hey you funny colored fella Sailingdiver Aug 2025 #4
This just makes me laugh JustAnotherGen Aug 2025 #18
Giving him ideas..... Bayard Aug 2025 #8
Also, our major cities aren't getting the shit bombed out of them continuously Ars Longa Aug 2025 #11
So he plans on legal doing backflips xmas74 Aug 2025 #12
He sees it as an opportunity. BlueTsunami2018 Aug 2025 #13
I'm not saying that he should have elections, but Lincoln did in an arguably worse situation Polybius Aug 2025 #16
Hmm JustAnotherGen Aug 2025 #17

NJCher

(43,534 posts)
1. he found it interesting
Mon Aug 18, 2025, 02:36 PM
Aug 2025

because one of their options is to get Zelensky out and put in a puppet regime that says yes to everything putin wants.

He also might think it's interesting because if they can't hold elections, they're down to one option: off Zelensky.

Wiz Imp

(10,433 posts)
3. He already knows that. He's been told many times before that the Ukrainian Constitution does not
Mon Aug 18, 2025, 02:44 PM
Aug 2025

allow for elections during a war. And unlike Republicans and Trump, Zelensky actually respects his country's Constitution.

JustAnotherGen

(38,109 posts)
5. I think the question
Mon Aug 18, 2025, 02:57 PM
Aug 2025

Was a plant.

I think ANY questions asked by the Toadies (Hand Selected Faux Press Corp) were plants.

Wiz Imp

(10,433 posts)
6. Probably correct. If it was asked by an explicitly right wing outlet, then it was definitely a plant.
Mon Aug 18, 2025, 03:01 PM
Aug 2025

Sailingdiver

(373 posts)
4. Hey you funny colored fella
Mon Aug 18, 2025, 02:52 PM
Aug 2025

We've already been over this ground.

The last time you embarrassed the US during a Z visit. He tried to explain it to you then but your sycophants were securely attached to your grundle and you were distracted.

Bayard

(30,288 posts)
8. Giving him ideas.....
Mon Aug 18, 2025, 03:40 PM
Aug 2025

He'll have his legal beagles combing through our Constitution to see if he could apply that here, thinking of where he could start a war.

Ars Longa

(579 posts)
11. Also, our major cities aren't getting the shit bombed out of them continuously
Mon Aug 18, 2025, 05:55 PM
Aug 2025

by a menacing neighboring power.

xmas74

(30,096 posts)
12. So he plans on legal doing backflips
Mon Aug 18, 2025, 05:56 PM
Aug 2025

To rule this in his favor too.

Of course, it won't matter that other US presidents have had elections during wartime.

Polybius

(22,122 posts)
16. I'm not saying that he should have elections, but Lincoln did in an arguably worse situation
Mon Aug 18, 2025, 09:09 PM
Aug 2025

Just sayin'.

JustAnotherGen

(38,109 posts)
17. Hmm
Tue Aug 19, 2025, 04:18 AM
Aug 2025

The CSA wasn't an existential threat to Europe.

Hitler had not yet been born to show the world what feckless appeasement would result in.

The weapons of war were not used to deliberately target a housing cluster in Philadelphia.

There was no Holodor as a predecessor of what the CSA was capable of. We know what the Russkies are capable of.

The Russians will always Russian.

Why would anyone want to force a point of weakness and distraction from victory on Ukraine - when the murderous dictator in Russia gets to do whatever he wants?


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