In fact, the Russian problem now has much deeper roots. “Few Western specialists on Russia are prepared to acknowledge that perestroika was a KGB-planned operation directed at seizing power with the goal of privatizing state property” or that “in August 1991 there was no liberal let alone a democratic revolution” but rather a carefully planned operation to “channel” mass enthusiasm in the direction the organs needed.
One of my father’s Russian 1st cousins got out in 1994. As I got to know him, I asked him what it was like to live without the Communism that he had known since his birth. His response: Same wall, different wallpaper. IOW, nothing changed except the faces of the people in charge, and the lies that they told. Those “Western specialists” could have used about 10 minutes with my relative.
“They are united in their goal of “fundamentally weakening the West and in the first instance the US, to extend the borders of their influence in the world, and to make Russia an assembly point for all the anti-Western forces of the world.”
Their economy is the size of New York State’s - good luck with that, we’ll spend them into bankruptcy...again.