All right, Alexander, let's talk about the elections in Russia yesterday.

Historic turnout. Putin won with about 85 or 87% of the vote.

Predictably, the collective West leadership and the collective West media, they're freaking out.

Sham elections. These are fake elections. But,

you know, here's my take on it. And let me know if I'm correct in how I'm assessing this.

These were not sham or fake elections. And they weren't sham or fake elections. If you go by

the polling data from Collective West sources, which consistently over the past couple of years

have put Putin's polling numbers, his approval ratings, at about 80 to 85%. Not Russian

polling companies or polling data. Collective West, or at least Collective West, endorsed polling

institutions have consistently put Putin's approval rating at anywhere between 80 to 85%. So to me,

this result falls exactly in line with Putin's approval numbers as, um, as put out there by collective West institutions.

Am I seeing this correctly?

You're seeing it as a sham.

You're seeing this absolutely correctly.

I mean, there is nothing about this vote that I have seen that leads me to think that what we're seeing is not an accurate reflection of the Russian mood, of the Russian public mood at the present time.

Now, clearly this was, in some respects, a different, well, in many respects, a different election

from other elections that we have seen in the sense that the other candidates who were there,

Haritone for the communist Slootsky for the Liberal Democrats, this this new ban whom i don't know very much about

da von off or whatever he named his name is i mean they weren't really campaigning because this

election was an election held at a time when russia, and so the overwhelming Russians,

majority of Russians believe in an existential conflict with the West,

which is playing out in a proxy war in Ukraine and in an economic war that the West has waged

...