"All you had to do was stick to oppressing your own people, and we would've kept looking the other way..." - eviltoast
  • PugJesus
    1•10 months ago

    My point wasn’t to refute that shock therapy caused the war, but to refute that shock therapy caused the modern Russian state in general. Shock therapy was economically damaging, but the root causes of the Russian kleptocracy are much, much deeper and more severe.