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> US is largest contributor to IMF it would be a joke to suggest their opinion has no sway. Russia was pursuing this strategy prior to IMF involvement. The mem

> US is largest contributor to IMF it would be a joke to suggest their opinion has no sway. Russia was pursuing this strategy prior to IMF involvement. The membership of the IMF was supportive of the strategy. The United States' Treasury Department did not intervene. Tell me again how this had anything to do with Putin? You make it sound as if the US was providing weapons to Putin or something. > Saddam in Iraq I think you have some reading to do if you believe the United States "installed" Saddam. It was the Ba’athists.

Ygg2 3y ago
> Russia was pursuing this strategy prior to IMF involvement. > Yeltsin turned to the Russian economists Yegor Gaidar and Anatoly Chubais, who, with the aid of Western advisers, hammered out the details. Jeez, wonder who gave them that idea. > I think you have some reading to do if you believe the United States "installed" Saddam. It was the Ba’athists. Think you are placing too much weight on installed. Installed in as in supported materially, financially, or militarily. Helped get into power or remain there.
- georgespencer 3y ago
  > or remain there. Whilst I'm impressed with the speed of your climbdown, you have now broadened your definition of "installed" to the point where it is utterly meaningless.