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«Mainstream scholars and opinion leaders see the war as a plot instigated by the US to weaken Russia, strengthen Nato and make Europe more dependent on Washingt
by Arnt 5y ago
«Mainstream scholars and opinion leaders see the war as a plot instigated by the US to weaken Russia, strengthen Nato and make Europe more dependent on Washington again.»
I'll abbreviate that. «Mainstream … see … a plot instigated by the US to weaken Russia … and make Europe more dependent». That's either an assessment error by the FT… or else a mainstream believes that politicians and bureaucrats in Washington are able to carry out a ten-year campaign requiring secrecy, finesse and an understanding of foreigners. What a compliment.
- dekhn 5y agoyeah, I wish the CIA was clever enough to do that, but if they did, why couldn't they just transition the russian government? I was amused to see that Chubais left Russia yesterday; he was part of my russian politics class in the mid 1990s. In fact most of the names are the same.