After a meeting with the US Secretary of the Treasury in Moscow on Tuesday, who was in town to beg for money to fund the Global War on Tactics, new Russian President Dmitri Medvedev told reporters that the United States has no business lecturing the world because it is in a depression.
You gotta love this guy. Back in February, Medvedev vowed to dismantle the Russian corporatist state, cut taxes, and pull back on the Russian internal security apparatus. And last month, he blasted the Federal Reserve for "impoverishing the majority of the people on the planet" and contrasted Russia's massive expansion of energy resource extraction with America's food price-spiking ethanol boondoggle. Justin Raimondo is exactly right when he says (here, here, and here) that you really have to question which country (the US or Russia) is freer when Russia is (1) liberalizing quite rapidly, (2) cutting taxes, (3) it's easier to start a political party there, (4) their internal security state is ramping down while ours is ramping up, (5)they rapidly expand oil production to meet demand while we do the opposite, and (6) they limit their external meddling to their own backyard while the US treats the entire globe like a military proving ground.
