See [https://julianmacfarlane.substack.com/p/terrorists-r-us Terrorists R' Us]:
See [https://julianmacfarlane.substack.com/p/terrorists-r-us Terrorists R' Us]:
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{{Cquote|While the US was courting [[Yeltsin]], clapping him on the back for his [[anti-Communism]] and anti-Sovietism and for opening up the country to [[McDonald]]'s and [[Western]] [[carpetbagger]]s while pouring him yet another vodka – "Boris we love you!" – the [[CIA]] was hard at work, trying to do to Russia's [[Islamic]] underbelly in [[Chechnya]] and Dagestan and elsewhere what it had done to [[progressive]] forces in [[Afghanistan]]. It was organizing and funding [[radical]] [[jihad]]ists such as [[Al Qaeda]] and others leveraging separatist sympathies.. The result was death and destruction, some of which came back to haunt the [[US]].}}
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{{Cquote|While the US was courting [[Yeltsin]], clapping him on the back for his [[anti-Communism]] and anti-Sovietism and for opening up the country to [[McDonald's]] and [[Western]] [[carpetbagger]]s while pouring him yet another vodka – "Boris we love you!" – the [[CIA]] was hard at work, trying to do to Russia's [[Islamic]] underbelly in [[Chechnya]] and Dagestan and elsewhere what it had done to [[progressive]] forces in [[Afghanistan]]. It was organizing and funding [[radical]] [[jihad]]ists such as [[Al Qaeda]] and others leveraging separatist sympathies.. The result was death and destruction, some of which came back to haunt the [[US]].}}