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From your phrasing, I cannot tell if you’re intentionally omitting the American role in exploiting Russia’s precarious beginning as a non-communist state, where it looted, and appropriated rights to vast holdings of the former regime. However feeble the Russian state was when Gorbachev dissolved the Soviet Union, it was far from the holl…
From your phrasing, I cannot tell if you’re intentionally omitting the American role in exploiting Russia’s precarious beginning as a non-communist state, where it looted, and appropriated rights to vast holdings of the former regime. However feeble the Russian state was when Gorbachev dissolved the Soviet Union, it was far from the hollowed out shell that was the result of a decade of western “influence.” The IMF was intent on making Russia a client-state.
Boris Yeltsin was the easy mark for Clinton and his band of hustlers. When Yeltsin grasped the damage that he had allowed, he appointed Putin to right the listing Russian ship. Putin clearly is an authoritarian, because thieves and trained con artists don’t respond to civility.
I am not intentionally omitting that. There certainly was considerable self dealing in the West’s (post fall of the Soviet Union) actions.