You seriously think Biden wants to invade Russia and steal their natural resources?
And you blame Clinton for Russia's weak economy the years immediately after the fall of the Soviet Union?
That's not quite what I wrote. Come on try and be fair, I'm not flaming anybody, I'm not snarking like the person below you, and though sometimes I skip steps and get lazy I've done quite a bit of research. You can see for example that I read sources not just from the West but also from various parts of Asia. That takes a lot of work and effort, anybody who tries would quickly notice that the foundational assumptions are distinct.
No, Biden doesn't want to invade Russia. I explicitly wrote that he doesn't want a big war. What the leadership class / ruling class in the Western countries want, of which Biden is currently the chief representative, is to bring Russia under Western control. There are many hypothetical ways to do this. The plan was likely to promote instability in Russia to the point where Putin would be forced out of power and replaced with a more pro-Western leader. In the long run, have the country broken up into as many pieces as possible.
IN the years after the fall of the USSR fell, there was a desire in Russia for reconciliation with the West. Instead we saw some covert actions, some of which are discussed by Columbia University Professor Jeffrey Sachs in various interviews, and others by Canadian writer Naomi Klein in her book The Shock Doctrine. The Russian leadership trusted the Western leadership, who in turn pushed economic shock therapy, etc, they expanded NATO in spite of having guaranteed to not do so, etc. They also sent wahhabi islamists into Chechnya to help destabilize that region, which is part of why Chechens are some of the most loyal Russian soldiers today.
Do you remember the war in Chechnya? At a minimum, it is quite amazing that a republic that had a major civil war just twenty years ago is now fully rebuilt, stronger than before, and well integrated.
I can only read your response and can barely imagine what you are responding to, but, no, Biden doesn't want to invade Russia. What corporate entities want to do is exploit natural resources as cheaply as possible; and the preference is to do it by "peaceful" exploitation. The problem Russia has, IMO, is that it has an inefficient form of capitalism because the internal economic structures are meant to enrich a small group. It's like the US on steroids with no "semi" independent judicial ability to in any way correct it.
Russia has abandoned the economic system of the USSR that was responsible for rapid economic growth from the late 1920s on and replaced it with a less effective one, all the while maintaining a corrupt, deformed political state.
That is incomplete.
It is true that corporations want to exploit resources cheaply, but what's also true and not mentioned is that they do not want their competitors to exploit it. Independent capitals inevitably clash.
The USSR was not viable. It might have never been viable regardless due to horrific losses of the second world war: 27 million lives. But it was also a less homogeneous country by virtue of being an empire and including many discontiguous elements such as, for example, Western Ukraine.
I'll leave aside the snark.
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