OPINION: Three decades of post-Cold War wheeling and dealing between Russia and the U.S. provide compelling evidence that Putin is right.
, roil the planet in chaos, and order his hobgoblins on Russian television to incessantly threaten the world with mushroom clouds.
Even before Putin strong-armed his way into the Kremlin throne room in 2000 , the former KGB agent who was assistant to St. Petersburg Mayor Anatoly Sobchak, instigated a new financial dance with the West that would revolutionize Russia’s finances.It was a modern twist on the Bolshevik “quartermaster” system, which he perfected once he was in the presidential suite.
"The macro picture looks all very great, but you have a problem with almost every stock you look at," Morgan Stanley Dean Witter emerging market specialist John-Paul Smith cautioned at the dawn of the Putin era. "Everything is tainted on an individual basis." Russia is not a nation. It is a global fascist enterprise. As a business, this is something remarkable, and those assigned the ongoing task of helping the country shed its brutal past and embrace the 21st century funded the process with eyes wide shut.
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