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| Subject: Russian-Style Kleptocracy Is Infiltrating America Sun Feb 10, 2019 6:59 pm | |
| When the U.S.S.R. collapsed, Washington bet on the global spread of democratic capitalist values—and lost.
For two years, in the early 1990s, Richard Palmer served as the CIA station chief in the United States’ Moscow embassy. The events unfolding around him—the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the rise of Russia—were so chaotic, so traumatic and exhilarating, that they mostly eluded clearheaded analysis. But from all the intelligence that washed over his desk, Palmer acquired a crystalline understanding of the deeper narrative of those times.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/03/how-kleptocracy-came-to-america/580471/ |
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