The world had already A/B tested "damage the economy so that it would never be a threat again" and "help transition to democracy" with Germany. The latter worked better.

I'm not the one who needs convincing.

That's a very serious claim, could you please provide some citations?

A peer comment reminded me of the name 'shock therapy', the think tank was called 'Harvard institute for international development'.

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2022/03/22/1087654279/how...

https://www.thenation.com/article/world/harvard-boys-do-russ...

My original comment has been flagged. I'd like to know why. If I'm wrong I'd like to be corrected.

If I had to guess, it's because George Soros is often used as synecdoche for "the vast Jewish conspiracy" by anti-Semites, so your comment sounds an awful lot like "the Jews are responsible for ruining Russia".

Which, uh, sounds a lot like anti-Semitic rhetoric not uncommon in, among other places, Russia.

It was flagged for not sufficiently praising the awful behavior of the US during and after the fall of the USSR.