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All three were democratically elected. Even Putin, before he dismantled Russian democracy.
There was no democracy in Russia at any point in time. Putin was placed in charge to restore USSR, and he didn't win by chance.
North Korea also has elections, so does Iran, Belarus, the difference is that we always know who will win.
I'm not sure where you got that from, but no, Putin won three* free and fair elections, one as PM and two as president.
*My memory is iffy so it could be that his reelection as president wasn't a fair election, but the preceding two were.
The reason he flipped between PM and president was that the Russian constitution prohibited consecutive terms in either position, so he alternated with his peg-boy Medvedev while remaining the real supreme power.
Simply untrue?
The us system is so wildly undemocratic with its two party, first past the post, electoral college that definitionally it cannot be considered a democracy!
We may never know what happen and happened in russia! Boris Yeltsin, the president before Putin, literally disappeared for weeks then suddenly reappeared next to Putin to hold speeches… And you are telling me that Putin was elected democratically for the first round?
We can get into the philosophy of it, but Trump was as democratically elected as any other president in US history.
Until you can provide evidence to the contrary, yes.
-Yea, which is not democratic at all as the us is definitionally not a democracy!
-It literally has a wikipedia page(https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Putin%27s_rise_to_power)… Being oblivious does not equate to being a sceptic!