Thank you, Debbie, it is a great piece, the world should know what colossal tragedy it was, their freaking "regime change" attempt. Sure enough, Browder and co. will never forgive Putin for not letting them loot, plunder and rob in free fall. Everything was so close, so almost there! I left in 1990, it was still USSR, I had to emigrate to Israel because there was no other way to leave the country to study abroad if you were a simple private citizen without BLAT. Therefore I was stripped of my Soviet citizenship and it took me 20 years to recieve a Russian citizenship, because Russian citizenship cannot be given to anyone who already has any other. Political mess. Today, Russia, because of being able to uphold its dignity, sovereignty and power, is vily hated by those who want to see it destroyed and up for grabs, who indoctrinate the Anglosphere and European population into rabid Russophobia, spreading the lies about "annexation" and "invasion".