At centre of anders arguement is russia is run by bunch of greedy kleptocrats and is bereft of any policy other than repression. It’s waaay more complicated than that.

Sechin is bad news “we have to talk about Igor.” But rus didn’t blunder into this crisis. It walked into it https://twitter.com/toferh/status/1249059257351372802">https://twitter.com/toferh/st...

And then there is this: “Russia’s economy will probably shrink due to the lower oil prices, which does not seem to be understood in the Kremlin. “

Have been in kremlin since 1997 Putin has had front row seat to all of Russia’s big crises. This statement is obvious nonsense