The Magnitsky Act, in this perspective, was a gravely belated step in the right direction. I am not the right person to tell when exactly it went too late. In 1991/1992 no particular road had been taken, and any could yet be. By 1996, it was observationally confirmed that the civilized world (quote the phrase or not) would accept any Russian administration as long as it doesn't play hammer and sickle. There was a possibility of escape in 1998/1999 but all major international players had already lost interest. By 2000, there was the psychopath with a zero-sum-game worldview in the Kremlin and anything short of shooting him down made him stronger. As far as I understand aillarionov, he is not promoting the assumption that a Supreme Council victory would rule the autocratic degeneration scenario out. His point rather boils down to "stand for the institutions and come what can"; that would also have been "American" in the true sense.
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Date: 2018-07-17 08:52 am (UTC)I am not the right person to tell when exactly it went too late. In 1991/1992 no particular road had been taken, and any could yet be. By 1996, it was observationally confirmed that the civilized world (quote the phrase or not) would accept any Russian administration as long as it doesn't play hammer and sickle. There was a possibility of escape in 1998/1999 but all major international players had already lost interest. By 2000, there was the psychopath with a zero-sum-game worldview in the Kremlin and anything short of shooting him down made him stronger.
As far as I understand