I don't think you fully understand the history involved and it's impact on the situation at hand.
After the fall of the Soviet Union, Boris Yeltsin and the Russian nation asked for western help to privatize the Russian economy.
One of those economic experts sent was Jeffrey Sachs
The article below is well worth the read and I pasted it here because it behind a pay wall if I post a Link.
Please read
Jeffrey Sachs said that when he called back to Washington, DC to request the same kind of financial assistance that had been given to help Poland smooth over the transition to capitalism, he encountered resistance that at first he did not understand. Over time, he said, he came to the conclusion that the reason Washington would not provide Russia the same support it had provided Poland was not that they didn’t understand the situation; they understood it perfectly, and simply did not want Russia to be back on its feet and able to assert itself in the community of nations.
President Yeltsin, at the urging of the United States, empowered a group of radical ideologues to rapidly privatize the Russian economy and, by 1993, their reforms had driven much of the population to the very edge of survival. Hyperinflation destroyed what savings the people had, there was very little food and few basic necessities on the shelves, and what there was the people couldn’t afford. In an infamous interview with an American journalist, Yeltsin was told that the reporter had recently seen hospitals in Moscow that lacked basic medicines and supplies, and that people were dying from curable conditions for lack of them. Yeltsin told her that his mother had recently had a heart attack, and that even she, the President’s own mother, did not have access to needed treatments. Everything was falling apart. In October 1993, the Duma (Parliament) voted to impeach Yeltsin.
With the support of the United States, he had the Parliament building surrounded by soldiers. The phones and electricity were cut off. People who rallied to demonstrate in support of the besieged Duma were attacked and beaten by police and soldiers. Then Yeltsin ordered his tanks to open fire on the parliament building with the rebellious members inside. At that point, the cowed parliamentarians raised the white flag and went outside to surrender. The great fear of the United States - a greater fear than war, at this point - was that Russian leaders would slow, halt, or even roll back the market reforms that were putting the invaluable assets of Russia for sale on the world market. Western currency went a long way in the collapsing Russian economy, and those with access to it were able to buy up entire swaths of the Russian economy. Most prominent among the new ownership class were mafia leaders, whose cross-border trafficking operations provided them with foreign currency that was used to buy factories, oil and natural gas fields, mines, seaports, everything. Crime was rampant. Destitute women made ends meet by turning to prostitution and pornography, and sold their children.
Men who could not feed their families fell to drugs and alcohol, and suicides skyrocketed. The streets of the cities were filled with beggars, many of them formerly respectable “middle-class” (in the Soviet sense) professionals. There were even high-ranking officers of the former Soviet military - I’m talking colonels and even generals - begging for change on the streets. At no time in history is that a situation that will be sustained for long without disruption.
So that's what led us here. This was typical US rape and loot foreign policy.
Vladimir Putin was elected by the Russian people to halt the looting and the rape of Russia.
He was an answer for a desperate people.
People in a situation created at least in part by the west.
That idiot
@hometeam is not somebody you should listen to. His ignorance of the subject is astounding and his propoganda driven slogans and buzzwords are simply stupid to hear when you know the full story
He doesn't have it in him to see it any other way.
