My theory is that Russia’s central bank is 60% owned by their own government, and 40% by investors. The western banking establishment cannot call the tune there and the Soros crew was kicked out. Russia has a debt to GDP ratio of 19%. Personal income taxes are 13%... period.
They have one sixth of the earths surface and are loaded with mineral wealth.
Compare that to our country. Taxes are a nightmare and we are at best 130% of debt to GDP and that doesn’t even include SS and entitlements.
Everything is explainable by this. Our greed class wants to remove Putin so they can get control of the Russian bank, peg the Ruble to the Dollar, and let western oil companies run the oil and gas industry.
They tried a color revolution with Hillary in 2011, and now try to provoke fights hoping to hand him some kind of defeat that would drive him from office and let them install a western puppet as in the 90s. Everything makes sense through that lens, pushing the NGOS on them, pushing the homosexuality, attacking every Russian ally they can like Libya and Syria, pushing for a war in Ukraine, etc.
The bottom line, DC, the neocons, and the banking establishment passionately hate Trump and Putin, and are utterly enthralled with communist China. So despite the lamentations of DC, this is not about authoritarianism, human rights or any of that bunk. Otherwise they would treat China the same.
Yes, the United States is after the majestic and amazing Russian economy, which has a GDP somewhere between Illinois and Florida. With Russia under our control, we will have a monopoly on their vodka resources.