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Spinning Boris
2003 · Film · 112 min
Directed by Roger Spottiswoode
Russian political elite hires American consultants to help with President Yeltsin's re-election campaign when his approval rating is down to single digits.
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Vague indeed. Why would you compare “shock therapy” privatization (essentially looting) of public resources directly to a handful of oligarchs hands promoted by the Chicago School (founded by Milton Friedman, who also advocated this with Chile’s Pinochet)
with a UBI gradually given directly to the People, and raising taxes on corporations?
The former led to a 1993 constitutional crisis where the parliament wanted to oust Yeltsin (“our man in the white house”) and Yeltsin had troops fire on the parliament and arrest the congress, which represented the people fed up with the wage repression and looting
Yeltsin had a 6% approval rating and we helped him win re-election by meddling in Russian elections. We bragged about in 1996 with movies like “Spinning Boris” and “Yanks to the Rescue” Time Magazine cover.
The latter led to - amazing health, business and productivity outcomes under MINCOME in Canada, and the lowest gini index in America under Alaska’s Permanent Fund
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUiyQ-yrk7k
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Russian_constitutional_crisis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Permanent_Fund
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mincome
Yeah, seriously. "We never expected this" while, say, hacking Angela Merkel's phone and spying on friendly countries in addition to installing backdoors everywhere...
This list is an exaggeration by someone with an extreme position but every one of these had US involement: https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
It also is missing the ironic involvement of the USA dispatching people to help Boris Yeltzin come back from losing to winning the Russian elections in the 90s (it's not even a secret, see the movie Spinning Boris).
Can someone tell me exactly what the word "hacking" means when people say "Russians hacked the election" over and above what was continuously happening by many countries the whole time?
This happens for just about every election. Obama spent money attempting to influence elections in Israel, France, all sorts of places. Look at what Clinton did to interfere in Russia's elections as lampooned in the Jeff Goldblum film Spinning Boris. Clinton just about ran Boris Yeltsin's campaign. You're on course for permanent outrage if you deeply research any particular election happening currently on this planet, I feel.