WE IN THE WEST SEE DEMOCRACY AS A BATTLE BETWEEN TWO SIDES. IT SHOULD NOT BE THIS WAY. IT ALWAYS ENDS UP IN THE DITCH OF COMPROMISES WHEN ONE SIDE HAS THE UPPER HAND BY A FACTOR OF ONE MORE VOTE THAN THE OTHER. BUT MORE OFTEN THAN NOT, DEMOCRACY ENDS UP FASCIST.

FOR EXAMPLE:

Ukrainians target Australian politician over Moscow trip
A neo-Nazi-linked activist wants the town councilor fired for observing Russia’s presidential election

The Australian Federation of Ukrainian Organisations has demanded that a small-town councilor be fired for traveling to Russia to observe the country’s recent presidential election and congratulating Vladimir Putin on his “transparent and comprehensive”victory. 

Adrian McRae of Port Hedland in Western Australia flew to Moscow last month as part of an international delegation to scrutinize Russia’s presidential election. A little-known councilor from a town of just 15,000 people, McRae drew attention back home when he appeared on Russian TV passing on his congratulations to Putin, who won the election with 87% of the vote.

“In my lifetime, the world has never seen such a transparent and comprehensive victory as what we saw here over the last three days,” McRae declared. 

McRae’s comments infuriated Australian Federation of Ukrainian Organisations (AFUO) co-chair Stefan Romanov.

“You’ve made the statements, you’ve offended people, you’ve gone against the international community, you’re trying to portray a picture that those in Russia have voted for a president who is now brutalizing Ukraine,” Romanov fumed, addressing McRae via ABC News on Tuesday.

You know what? Go and do your work with the Russian government, go and do your work with the Russian embassy and let somebody represent the community according to community values,” Romanov added.

In addition to leading the AFUO, Romanov was the head of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists’ Stepan Bandera faction (OUN-B) from 2009 to 2022. Under Bandera and after his arrest, the OUN-B collaborated with Nazi Germany, taking part in the mass murder of Poles during World War II amid Adolf Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union. As OUN-B leader, Romanov has spoken at rallies organized by the neo-Nazi ‘Svoboda’ party in Ukraine.

Former Port Hedland Shire President Arnold Carter has joined Romanov in calling for McRae’s dismissal, while Western Australia Premier Roger Cook called the councilor’s comments “bizarre,” and encouraged “the people of Port Hedland to express their dissatisfaction with that.”

In an interview with Nine News on Monday, McRae explained that a “chance meeting” in January with Russian ambassador Alexey Pavlovsky had piqued his interest in traveling to Russia to observe the election. Fresh from winning his own local election in Port Hedland, he said that he arrived in Moscow last month with “a few, probably media-driven preconceived notions” about Russia.

“But coming back…their democracy is more transparent and more certainly more professionally run, the logistics and management of their election process leads anything I’ve seen, certainly in the West,” he told the Australian network.

Allegations that McRae and his fellow observers were “being played” by Russian authorities, or that the election itself was unfair are “not only insulting to me,” McRae said, “but I’m sure the Russian people, if they heard that, it would be an absolute slap in the face.”

McRae added that he paid his own way to Russia, and that the trip “had nothing to do with anything Port Hedland council related.”

https://www.rt.com/news/595347-australia-politician-russia-trip/

WHAT DOES THIS MEAN? THIS MEANS THAT WE'VE BEEN FED PROPAGANDA ABOUT RUSSIA AND UKRAINE. UKRAINE ISN'T A DEMOCRATIC MODEL OF UNDERSTANDING. THE UKRAINE GOVERNMENT SINCE 2014 HAS BEEN NAZI. NOT NEO-NAZI, BUT PURE FASCIST BASED ON THE IDEAL OF BANDERA THAT KILLED 600,000 JEWS DURING WW2. COMMUNISM (A FORM OF DEMOCRACY) HAD ITS PROBLEMS AND HAD BECOME FASCIST IN ITSELF THROUGH A GEORGIAN BORN LEADER — STALIN. LIKE IN ALL COUNTRIES, THERE ARE GOOD PEOPLE AND BAD PEOPLE... THE GALICIANS OF UKRAINE ARE IN GENERAL GOOD AND THERE ARE GOOD AND BAD UKRAINIANS WHO HAVE MIGRATED TO AUSTRALIA. OKAY. RUSSIA CHANGED IN THE 1990s... OF ALL THE ACTS OF GENEROSITY EVER PERFORMED ON THIS PLANET BY HUMANS, THE DISMANTLING OF THE WARSAW PACT WAS AN EXTRAORDINARY ALTRUISTIC MOMENT TO A CERTAIN EXTEND. GIVING FREEDOM TO USSR PROVINCES AND COUNTRIES, PLUS THE DEMOLITION OF THE BERLIN WALL ARE AMAZING.

WAS IT A REALISATION THAT THE SYSTEM WAS NOT WORKING OR THAT THE COST OF MAINTAINING THE SYSTEM VERSUS THE CHEATS OF THE AMERICAN EMPIRE BECAME IMPOSSIBLE OR THAT THE WESTERN PROPAGANDA OF THE SILLY WESTMINSTER DEMOCRATIC IDEAL WAS OVERPOWERING?

THE POINT IS THAT THE USSR DISMANTLEMENT WAS ONE OF THE MOST GENEROUS ACT. BUT, GUESS WHAT, THE AMERICANS TOOK IT AS AN OBLIGATION TO "KICK THE BASTARD"... SOON, THE AMERICAN EMPIRE INVADED IRAQ, TWICE, DESTROYED LIBYA, FIDDLED IN THE MIDDLE-EAST BY SUPPORTING THE ISRAELI GENOCIDAL REGIME, DIVIDED THE SUNNIS AND SHIAS, CONTROLLED MOST OF EUROPE POLITICS AND FORCED UKRAINE TO GET RID OF ITS RUSSIAN COMMUNITY, DESPITE AGREEMENTS MADE IN MINSK...

ALL THIS IS DONE WITH UNDERCURRENTS OF DESTRUCTION SUCH AS THE BOMBING OF YUGOSLAVIA UNDER FALSE PRETENCES, AND BY FLOODING THE "MARKET" WITH DOLLARS BASED ON THE IDEA OF THE WIND — A DEFICIT THAT HAS GROWN BY THE SAME AMOUNT SPENT ON FEEDING THE AMERICAN WAR MACHINE. PLUS A POISONING OF THE PLANET WITH VARIOUS CHEMICALS FOR PROFITS (LET'S NOT MENTION THE "ILLICIT" DRUG MARKET)... NOW, THE CARD CASTLE IS ABOUT TO COLLAPSE... BUT THE IDEAS OF SUPREMACY STILL POLLUTES THE BRAINS OF THE MANIACAL SOCIOPATHS THAT RULE THE WEST. BIDEN IS DANGEROUS, BECAUSE HE ALWAYS WAS A WARMONGER BUT NOW HE CAN HARDLY REMEMBER WHERE HE LIVES... AND THE BOFFINS OF THE WARMONGERING AMERICAN WAR MACHINE ARE IN CHARGE — AND THEY LIE.

THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE HAVE REGAINED THEIR PRIDE, WHILE WE SHOULD BE SHAMEFUL OF OUR LEADERS WHO ALLOW A GENOCIDE IN FULL LIGHT IN GAZA...

YOUNG PEOPLE! DON'T LET THE NEXT CRAZY MOVE HAPPEN. TELL YOUR LEADERS... WHAT'S THE HECK?... THE PSYCHOS WILL STILL COME UP THROUGH THE RANKS OF DEMOCRACY.... THEY LIVE AMONGST YOU AND YOU COULD BE ONE OF THEM....

GUS LEONISKY

CARTOONIST SINCE 1951....

I'M NOT FAMILIAR WITH THE QUOTE IN THE CARTOON: 

"Democracy is two wolves
and a lamb voting on
what to have for lunch."
Benjamin Franklin