Pretending To Be Clean

When the USSR crapped out in the late 80s - early 90s, it became the wild west. For years, Russia was where Milton Friedman's gang of merry economic shock therapy practitioners got to apply his totally fucked up "Unfettered Free Market Capitalism" theories.

Poppy Bush sent Bob Strauss to help the transition, thinking a little "kinder gentler" window dressing would help keep things calm, but the scramble was on, and there would be almost literally nothing left on the carcass when the Soviet State Assets had been auctioned off to - or flat-out stolen by - the oligarch buzzards.

Enter Bill Browder, who's not exactly one of the bad guys, but definitely someone who was pretty much blinded to the shitty behavior going on all around him, as he concentrated on taking advantage of the new-found riches made available by privatizing the Russian government.

If you're OK with what Putin's up to, you're gonna fuckin' love the shit we can look forward to if we allow the GOP to continue with their American Plutocracy Project.