Speaking of trolls… #Russia's siloviki amassed a vast slush fund under Putin to serve both personal greed & geopolitical strategy. Following the money, new book by Catherine Belton shows how Russians plundered Russian businesses & continue to corrupt western govts & leaders.
“It looks like the whole of US politics is for sale,” a former senior Russian banker tells Belton. “We believed in western values… But it turned out everything depended on money, and all these values were pure hypocrisy.”
#PutinsPeople #GOPCorruption
#VoteBlue #SaveUSDemocracy
#PutinsPeople #GOPCorruption
#VoteBlue #SaveUSDemocracy
Kremlin black cash is like a dirty atomic bomb…Russian money & influence are pernicious threats to the West… Social inequality left us wide open to Russia’s aggressive new tactics fueling far right & far left
—Putin’s People: How the KGB Took Back Russia & Then Took on the West
—Putin’s People: How the KGB Took Back Russia & Then Took on the West
Adding this to my quarantine📚list: "Putin’s People: How the KGB Took Back Russia & Then Took on the West," Catherine Belton's groundbreaking study that follows the money.
Our greatest challenge post-plague will be to disinfect democracy of corruption. theguardian.com/books/2020/may…
Our greatest challenge post-plague will be to disinfect democracy of corruption. theguardian.com/books/2020/may…
