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I also agree with you that the article is interesting. It would have been nice if the journalists would have asked some tougher questions though. Your point ab

I also agree with you that the article is interesting. It would have been nice if the journalists would have asked some tougher questions though. Your point about the spending in Serbia is a good one, I had not thought about it that way.

082349872349872 6y ago
Not a journalist, but an author. I would not be surprised if he'd softballed this piece to get it into FA, as the tone of the book (judging solely by its cover) appears darker[1]. (there's also a question of access, and he has CIA endorsement blurbs...) I've seen claims on Runet (from, I'm guessing, ER voters) that Yeltsin had been a "Washington Consensus" puppet. On the other hand, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Yeltsin_1996_presidential_campaign#Team_of_Americans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Yeltsin_1996_presidentia... minimises the Americans' role. We might hope to know the truth sometime before 2096. (there are JFK files which are still classified) [1] then again, election finessing is actually mild compared with Operation Condor, which only came out around the turn of the century.