Kieth McClery's pedantic Russian digressions on racism: a treatise

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Russian-Style Kleptocracy Is Infiltrating America

As before:

Kleptocracy in America: Russian-style corruption, driven by global oligarchs, enabled by US elites

…as a consequence of the infiltration during the 1990’s of American-style kleptocracy into the states of the former USSR. If you’re focused on nations, you’re missing the point. Wealth and inequality corrupts, no matter what the country. Our enemies are defined by class, not nationality.

After the failure of shock therapy what hope for Russia now?

More significantly, when the dossier on Mr Chernomyrdin was sent to the office of US Vice-President Al Gore, it was returned to the CIA in Langley, Virginia, with what New York Times writer James Risen described as a “barnyard epithet” scrawled across its cover. Obviously the US administration didn’t want to know too much about the people it was dealing with.

But western tolerance of Russian corruption appears to have played a major part in fuelling the current crisis. The optimistic view was that the robber barons of Russia’s new wild capitalism would eventually get wealthy enough to go straight and all would proceed nicely from there.

This was wishful thinking. What really happened was that the corrupt became more corrupt. The European Union Court of Auditors, for example, announced this year that perhaps $5 billion sent to Russia as aid for improving the safety of nuclear installations was either misspent or stolen. It is known that large sums from other international organisations destined for different projects in Russia met a similar fate.

If Russia was the addict as far as the abuse of financial aid was concerned, then the West was the pusher. Western institutions and countries believed that Russia’s economy was improving and they believed this simply because it was what they wanted to believe.

Economic shock therapists who, only a few months ago, were claiming that their measures had been successful, are now denying that these measures were ever implemented in the first place.

The shock therapists have blamed the International Monetary Fund for what has happened. One leading commentator, while admitting that US policy in Russia had failed, came up with the bizarre message that “just because it failed does not mean it was wrong”.

http://exiledonline.com/how-the-west-helped-invent-russias-election-fraud-osce-whistleblower-exposes-1996-whitewash/