@christineburns @GreenSkyOverMe people hoped. Western corps and govs went in to extract resources for cheap instead of helping a democracy flourish. Gehry's titanium Guggenheim facades were possible thanks to an oligarch taking control of titanium mines (from workers it belonged to) and flushing markets with a lot of titanium to make some quick money. That in turn disgusted Russian people and they turned to a strongman, an ex-kgb who stepped in at the perfect time, ordered his intelligence service to bomb random apartments in Moscow to manipulate public sentiment. Once he won he didn't care if it came out. Without acknowledging responsibility nothing will change.