Trump’s America will be a mafia state
Why we must treat the radical right as a crime gang
In 2010, Wikileaks revealed that US diplomats were describing Vladimir Putin’s Russia as a "virtual mafia state". Not an “illiberal democracy” or an “oligarchy” or any other variety of euphemism, but a criminal conspiracy.
The big boss Putin amassed the “illicit proceeds” as he sat at the top of a vastly corrupt system.
I wonder where those diplomats are …
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