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Originally Posted by Ab
I can't help but wonder how much oil money the Kremlin has been funneling into causes and orgs left and right around the world to buy influence or silence. Russia has always been great at this stuff, from the Empire to today.
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Case in point,
today at The Standard:
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One of Vladimir Putin’s objectives in the Russian incursion into Ukraine was to “denazify Ukraine.” With the breakdown in the agreement to allow a humanitarian corridor out of Mariupol, this task will be much harder and the terrorist toll much higher. Once Russia has succeeded however, the world will be a better place for it.
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Posted by Mike Smith, former General Secretary of the NZ Labour Party.