has anyone discovered collusion in russia between military-industrial biz and government to distort facts too, or is it just the west^TM?
back in the 40's, or now?

on a paranoid day, i see visions of all the death-tycoons on both sides agreeing to whip up fear for mutual profit.

i wonder if that's happening now...

'hey vlad, we're gonna put more bases around you, that should boost you guys' bizniz, now why don't you make some noise about training missiles on yurp, and how you're going to plough more roubles into your war machinery.'

'that should do the trick george,will do. brilliant!, see ya at g8 for drinks and golf. oh, and thanks for saying you saw my soul, the russian church love me now'.

'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty