I don't even know if Putin himself has ever been this explicit in public about being a dictator. You know, *formally* he is still an elected president, he is still winning those fake elections with the usual fake outcomes (while dissidents and political opponents are being poisoned or thrown out of windows).
It's mindblowing that a convicted criminal can actually run a presidential campaign (and even win it) in the USA, while claiming in public that he will fix (meaning remove) the democratic voting process if he wins. This is a blatant and direct dictatorship threat, and the fact that nothing can stop this in its tracks tells us that the US democracy is terminally ill.
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