There are two very good reasons not to have an election there right now
1: they just don't have the time for it, they are fighting for their lives and country.
- A sudden strategy shift, even if it's a good one, has the potential to put their army in disarray.
More important, it's just more projection. He's a dictator. Not me
Germany was a relatively weak country, recently ravaged by war only 20 years earlier. We are not. Which I'm not counting as a good thing these days