By Montgomery J. Granger @mjgranger1
The Biden regime is supporting the Ukraine President, Volodymyr Zelensky, in his election claims. Zelensky has proposed that elections are not possible during the conflict with Russia because there can be no elections during martial law. Of course, President Zelensky could suspend martial law any time he wants to. The Ukrainian constitution requires elections every five years, including on March 31, 2024. However, Biden and Zelensky do not want an end to the war, least of all through a referendum for a new president via democratic elections. That would be too risky.
The Biden regime had claimed they support Ukraine, a country that before the Russian incursion had no relationship with the US, outside of their dubious connections with the Biden family. These connections came through Burisma, the Ukrainian energy company that paid Hunter Biden hundreds of thousands of dollars for his influence with his father, before Joe Biden extorted a change in prosecutors investigating Burisma. What a democratic country!
Democracy Suspended: Why Zelensky Won’t Hold Elections
Joe Biden could require democratic elections and withhold aid until they are completed. The fear that Zelensky would fail to be reelected is real and terrifies the Military Industrial Complex (MIC), who are making money hand over fist from all parties involved.
A generation of Ukrainian men has been lost in this proxy war between NATO and Russia. Ukraine cannot hope to win a war of attrition with Russia, who can outman, outproduce, and outfight Zelensky’s dwindling forces.
On the other hand, the US has a history of holding presidential elections, even in wartime, including the Civil War (Lincoln), WWII (F.D. Roosevelt), and Vietnam (Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon).
Whether federal or local, elections in the United States are sacred events. History tells us that shenanigans during elections are nothing new. Although. our memories and curiosity are short, learning about our past can be instructive and enlightening.
History Repeats Itself
I have been preparing a manuscript for a Civil War soldier’s diary book begun by my mother back in 1963. The book is about experiences of our ancestor Freeman Woodman as a Union soldier with the 52nd Illinois Volunteer Infantry, which he documented during the war years of 1862-1865. The project recreates 52 local newspaper articles my mother wrote about her great grandfather, called The Centum Diaries. She wrote the articles, one per week, from January – December 1963, recalling Freeman’s daily 1863 entries and contextual framework around his recollections.
While transcribing the articles I came across this entry from Friday, January 30, 1863, published in The Geneva Republican, Geneva, Illinois, Thursday, January 31, 1963, by my mother, Gail Granger:
“In the spring of 1862 Democratic officials in Springfield [Illinois] had organized with the intent of drawing up a new state constitution. This convention had been ordered by the people in the last election.
“There were great many southern sympathizers in Illinois and there was even talk of “Egypt” (part of southern Illinois) seceding from the Union but they lacked the courage to make any open break and so attempted to make their mark through politics. Governor Richard Yates was greatly opposed to the new constitution. He and fellow Republicans supported President Lincoln’s firm stand against secession. The proposed constitution took a much more liberal view of secession and revised many state policies the Republicans felt were better left as they were. Governor Yates urged all fellow Republicans and loyal Unionists to reject the proposed constitution completely, regardless of its good or bad points and support the present constitution that had served them well for the past 15 years.
“The Constitutional Committee made a point of providing for taking the votes of the men on duty on the various camp grounds of the war. The committee had been accused of taking advantage of the Republicans since many of the latter’s voters were at the front. Getting these far-flung votes was no small task and the job was not completed for several months.
“The early returns were rumored to be in favor of the new constitution but it soon became apparent that the majority of Illinoisans at home and on the front, were against it. By August of 1862, with many military votes yet to come in, Governor Yates – on the basis of the present count – issued a proclamation rejecting the proposed constitution.
“The 52nd regiment, as Freeman recorded, was among that majority which voted against that “secessionist constitution” and for the existing constitution.
“The following is taken from the history of another Illinois regiment and gives an impassioned picture of how the soldiers felt about the matter: “It was a time when the army needed encouragement, perhaps the darkest period of the war. In such a time these opponents of everything done by loyal men were busy in the legislature of Indiana and Illinois trying to secure the passage of resolutions condemning the operations of the government and calling for cessation of hostilities. The patriotism of the soldiers was most thoroughly aroused. Meetings of the various regiments were held and resolutions adopted, condemning in the strongest terms the disloyalty thus manifested in the North. The 115th regiment passed them nearly unanimously, though truth requires it to be said that a few voted the other way.” (Taken from “History of the 115th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry” by Issac Henry Clay Royse, member of the 115th regiment.)”
When I read this portion of my mother’s article, I immediately thought of why Zelensky and Biden wouldn’t want elections or governmental change in Ukraine. It might end the war.
The people of Ukraine are being deprived of their constitutional right to a democratic election, and are losing their lives daily because of it.
The people of the United States are being deceived about the true nature of Ukraine and their conflict with Russia. There is nothing democratic about Ukraine.
Human lives should mean more than a power play to keep the MIC, and by extension, everyone associated with keeping the war going, enriched.