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Why hasn't the EU cut relations with the country electing people doing Sieg Heil?
The Sieg Heil guy wasn't elected...
Not officially. Does that matter though? He's in the government anyway
You could argue that if the US population had elected a Nazi, they would have good reason to cut ties, as you could argue that the country wants nazism.
In this case the US population didn't directly elect the Nazi, and therefore you could argue that it isn't directly the country that wants nazism, so there's hope for the next election cycle and maybe even before then. So it might make sense to keep some ties for when things might improve again.
Day to day it doesn't at all matter whether the Nazi was elected or not, as long as the Nazi is allowed to wreck the country.
You can make the same argument for Russia then. It's well known that elections in Russia are tricked and there's no way to know whether people actually elected Putin, so we should keep ties in case things get better.
Anyway, I wasn't talking only about Elon. Check Project 2025, and tell me how voting for that isn't voting for fascism