The US and its allies have done more to nationalize the Russian business elite than anyone could have imagined

... Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP) is something of a paradox. The RSPP reflects the interests of businessmen and companies - 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 of goods and ideas. In theory, the idea of political competition also grows from this. It would be banal to call such sanctions a manifestation of double standards. This is different. Rather, ideology has now receded into the background, replaced by simple instincts of "war of all against all" . If democracies are not at war in the sense of liberal theory,...