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You misunderstood: The problem isn't private enterprise, it's organized crime.

It's the conversion of public property for pennies on the dollar. It's theft and graft, except it will be legitimized by the government and supreme court. And you'll never get it back, because that would be considered "nationalization" of private property.

It was Putin's playbook after the collapse of the (orchestrated?) collapse of the Soviet Union - and they're apparently reusing it for the US as well.

Oh, did I mention that Putin was democratically elected?




> Putin was democratically elected

Was he? And even if he was, what the story with the bombings that greatly boosted his position? That man is as dirty as they get.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Russian_apartment_bombi...




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