A true hostile environment for our enemies is long overdue
My favourite aspect is the nail-biting uncertainty – waiting eagerly for those first exit polls, before we get the first idea of who will leadfor the next six years. Even then, we cannot know until the detailed results are in whether the victor will have a slender majority or a commanding lead, which determines the ambitions of their term in office.
No wonder that the Russian electorate keeps voting for the only individual who seems to possess the fortitude and good luck to carry on and on in the Kremlin unscathed, despite such a dangerous political environment, not even catching a cold while he unobtrusively goes on heroic shirtless horse-riding adventures in view of almost no paparazzi at all.. The prospect of anyone – still less a malevolent thug – getting 87.
These aren’t the actions of an incapable regime, but one which wishes to boast that it does not care; that yes, it has done these things, and it intends to keep on doing so.