Comments by "Stephen Hill" (@stephenhill545) on "Russia blocks Boris Nadezhdin from presidential election | DW News" video.

  1. It does not denote confidence in ones own arguments. He has got the whole media under his control, and he still needs to ban people. I can only say, his arguments must be rather weak.
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  2. The US has strong institutions, as it showed on January 6th.
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  3. Britain didn't hold elections during ww2. Are you arguing that Britain isn't a democracy, because according to your argumentation it isn't.
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  4. And actually it is the voters who should decide, not the state. That would be dictatorship.
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  5. Are you saying that he isn't a rapist? Was the evidence tampered with of something? Interested in facts.
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  6. There is a reason why the leaders after brezhnev all tried to conduct reforms. The system itself wasn't delivering. Gorbachev was not the problem, the command economy with unaccountable leaders was.
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  7. Putin is also being interviewed by a western reporter, a neo fascist westerner, but a westerner all the same.
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  8. Tucker won't talk about this.
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  9. I was in russia. A lady tried to pay the driver, but there was a problem with her phone. Nobody helped, so i gave her 50 rubles cash. Now i know thd problem with Russia. Everybody just looks on.
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  10. With 1.4 million people in the internal security forces, I wouldn't hold your breath.
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  11. And the election is going to you know who.
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  12. The intention is to tell the Russian people that he can do anything he wants. To cower, to demoralise, to psychologically crush them.
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  13. You're not, believe me, as someone who lives in russia.
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  14. Putin is truly afraid. Hopefully, Russians have the common sense to see it.
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