“Does Zero Hedge really think it matters? The place is a kleptocracy, no matter who is running it. Failure was inevitable.”
You falsely attribute the opinions expressed in the article to Zero Hedge, when they are instead the opinions of one or a group of anonymous authors. For all anyone here can know the article could have been authored by one of Putin’s secret intelligence services and handed to a Putin Internet troll for anonymous publication in Zero Hedge. The content has the lies, innuendo, and lines of false propaganda characteristic of the disinformation being disseminated by Putin’s intelligence services.
Well, I would assume there is some sort of edit process.