The US and its allies have done more to nationalize the Russian business elite than anyone could have imagined
... sanctioned our most ardent capitalists. How to even describe this sort of hypocrisy? The imposition of US sanctions against the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP) is something of a paradox. The RSPP reflects the interests of businessmen ... ... ie. the locomotives of the capitalist economy. So, by definition, these are the very people who most believe in free markets. Capitalism, in turn, is the pillar of the Western model of economic structure and the main source of open trade and the exchange ...