It is appalling that some here consider this a pot-meet-kettle kind of thing. The US has influenced, to the point of running them as puppets, many governments.

It is appalling that some here consider this a pot-meet-kettle kind of thing. The US has influenced, to the point of running them as puppets, many governments. That's bad, and mostly needless and to the US's long term disadvantage. But there is a reason we have a law named after Sergei Magnitsky, and there is no mirror image of that in Putin's rump empire. There is no equivalence here, and no viable claim that "everybody does it."