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Originally Posted by Chris
… which doesn’t affect the point I was making, with regards to conscription and suspension of elections in Ukraine, which you have floated as acts delegitimising Ukraine’s effort at national survival. The comparison with the UK in WW2 is entirely valid and instructive.
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Did we ban sections of the press, intimidate journalists, ban opposition parties and trade unions?
Link to journalist intimidation from that well known Putin mouthpiece “the Guardian”:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...-intimidate-us
My view is Zelensky has gone much further, even setting aside 20th century principles being applied in a 21st century war. He’s banned parties that added up to over 2 million votes at the last parliamentary election. Banning trade unions silences the voices of largely working class men who will be sacrificed in this escapade given the levels of corruption that will ensure the political class, their sons and their brothers dodge the draft.
In World War 2 the Chamberlain government collapsed. I doubt there’s any mechanism by which Ukrainian opposition to Zelensky (within his own party or the opposition that haven’t been banned) to do the same. Other than the previous mentioned bullet, of course.