When Boris Yeltsin left office, Putin turned the table on the oligarchs who were looting the wealth of Russia and sending Russians into grinding poverty. The smart oligarchs fled to London, Tel Aviv, Nueva Jork , or Miami. One, Bill Browder, was clever enough to have CONgress pass the Magnitsky act as a reprisal against Putin for daring to interfere with the oligarchs god-given right to own all the wealth of Russia. Where the bible once said that the non-chosen would be the hewers of wood and carriers of water for the chosen folks, they are now the overthrowers of governments and installers of chosen-people friendly governments.
Last Wednesday and Thursday I channel surfed the ABC,CBS, and NBC iterations of the Ministry of Truth and found no Ukraine war news. I knew that this silence meant that something was wrong with the rah-rah Ukraine cheerleading and that the war was not going well for our Ukrainian puppets.
And not only is the war not going well for our puppets, our political and economic war against Russia is taking a heavy toll on our and the European economies. The big guy and his handlers won't suffer the consequences of their decades long mismanagement of our economy, but a lot of Americans are about to feel pain that they've never felt before.
I hope that for them, having been hewers of wood and carriers of water was worth it.