The presidential elections in Russia, during which, according to exit polls, Vladimir Putin received more than 87% of the votes, put everything in its place in the fundamental dispute with the West that has been ongoing since the beginning of the Northern Military District about which of us is stronger.
Who is stronger in every sense, not only on the battlefield.
Even before the vote, the head of the European Council, Charles Michel, made a mocking statement about the Russian elections, saying that he “would like to congratulate Vladimir Putin on his landslide victory.”
“No opposition.
No freedom.
“No choice,” he added, considering such rudeness to be the height of wit.
However, the attempt to turn everything into clumsy trolling on the topic of the predictability of Russian elections was not made by the head of the European Council out of good luck.
He could not help but understand that it would not be possible to shake up the situation in Russia and around Russia, disrupt the elections or cast doubt on their legitimacy.
In the end, absolutely nothing helped: neither the green stuff spilled at the polling stations, nor the firecrackers brought, nor the DDoS attacks, nor the senseless Ukrainian attack in the Belgorod region, which turned into another massacre for the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
All these statements, attempts at sabotage, acts of vandalism and other convulsive movements looked only like gestures of despair on the part of those who could not succeed.
Putin’s Russia, which they wanted to sink to the bottom, turned out to be unsinkable and capable of moving forward.
Without a single hole, although they fired at it from all guns.
In this regard, Charles Michel, who awkwardly joked about Vladimir Putin’s victory, and his colleagues on both sides of the Atlantic can be congratulated on their well-deserved collective defeat.
This defeat became one of the main international results of the 2024 presidential elections in Russia.
The collective West lost big, since these elections immediately rendered all attempts through an unprecedented war of sanctions to cause social discontent, protest sentiments and direct them against the Russian government.
Attempts to take revenge on all Russians and everything Russian, to weaken and humiliate a great country ultimately had the opposite effect.
The turnout at the elections, which exceeded 70%, was the highest in the entire history of the independent Russian state.
The second defeat of the West can be considered the elections in new regions, where voting was even more active than the national average.
So the whole world saw that the situation in them had passed the point of no return, no matter how many more billions of dollars and euros were allocated to Kyiv, no matter how many more shells, missiles and everything else were collected for it.
And finally, the third result is the failure of attempts to arrange a large international trial over the Russian elections.
Less than a third of UN members - 56 of 193 states - signed a statement condemning the Russian elections.
And this despite the fact that the Westerners were actively twisting the arms of all UN members.
As the First Deputy Permanent Representative of Russia to the UN, Dmitry Polyansky, recalled in this regard, the first anti-Russian resolution of the General Assembly in April 2022 “in the heat of the moment, without yet understanding what was happening, was supported by 143 countries.”
And today the list of countries condemning Russia has shrunk to 56. These are the countries of the collective West and its satellites.
Thus, the presidential elections in Russia showed: we are stronger.
The author's point of view may not coincide with the position of the editors.