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[–]JosephDeMaistre 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

"Both candidates?" What the fuck? There were dozens of candidates, including several Russophilic ones. The fact that only pro-Western candidates got lots of votes means that these are the policies that millions of Ukrainians wanted, whilst Illia Kyva (Socialist Party, apparently also an FSB operative) received 5,869 votes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Ukrainian_presidential_election#Results).

So you're suggesting that millions of Ukrainians had no right to elect a pro-Western leader of their choosing for their own country and comrade Kyva with his 5k of votes deserved the post instead? And who is this "We" you're referring to? If you're an American and hate your own country, feel free to get lost and emigrate to Pyongyang or Moscow.

[–]SoCo[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Sorry, I meant to say all, not both which is more common where I'm at. Yes, we, the EU and US members who planned for and coerced the coup, election ahead of time, then paid for and intimately ran the election, looking over the shoulders of local election workers, had "vetted" all candidates, filtering out any we didn't like.