Russia was pursuing this strategy prior to IMF involvement. The membership of the IMF was supportive of the strategy. The United States' Treasury Department did not intervene. Tell me again how this had anything to do with Putin? You make it sound as if the US was providing weapons to Putin or something.
> Saddam in Iraq
I think you have some reading to do if you believe the United States "installed" Saddam. It was the Ba’athists.
> Yeltsin turned to the Russian economists Yegor Gaidar and Anatoly Chubais, who, with the aid of Western advisers, hammered out the details.
Jeez, wonder who gave them that idea.
> I think you have some reading to do if you believe the United States "installed" Saddam. It was the Ba’athists.
Think you are placing too much weight on installed. Installed in as in supported materially, financially, or militarily. Helped get into power or remain there.
Whilst I'm impressed with the speed of your climbdown, you have now broadened your definition of "installed" to the point where it is utterly meaningless.
US is largest contributor to IMF it would be a joke to suggest their opinion has no sway. Especially application of neo liberal way of things.
> How many dictators has the United States installed, allied with, and then invaded or killed in your lifetime?
Two at least I can recall on the top of my head. Saddam in Iraq and Gaddafi in Libya.
Granted not all dictators are dumb enough to trust US, nor are their circumstances the same, for example some have nukes.