https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/03/how-kleptocracy-came-to-america/580471/
Russian style kleptocracy in the U.S.A.
Good lord I'm going to bed.
Russian style kleptocracy in the U.S.A.
Good lord I'm going to bed.
the orange one is just a bit player
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"When the U.S.S.R. collapsed, Washington bet on the global spread of democratic capitalist values—and lost".
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"capitalist values", what's that?
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"In the dying days of the U.S.S.R., Palmer had watched as his old adversaries in Soviet intelligence shoveled billions from the state treasury into private accounts across Europe and the U.S. It was one of history’s greatest heists".
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sounds a lot like the US socialist bank bailouts that started in 2008, and continue to today.
what they got, was totally unregulated "capitalist behavior".
"When the U.S.S.R. collapsed, Washington bet on the global spread of democratic capitalist values—and lost".
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"capitalist values", what's that?
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"In the dying days of the U.S.S.R., Palmer had watched as his old adversaries in Soviet intelligence shoveled billions from the state treasury into private accounts across Europe and the U.S. It was one of history’s greatest heists".
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sounds a lot like the US socialist bank bailouts that started in 2008, and continue to today.
what they got, was totally unregulated "capitalist behavior".
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Love me some old Randy Newman before LA and his high production efforts. May I humbly offer, for a small chuckle, a song from a guy sitting in a club with his piano in front of a small crowd......
