Goodreads Doesn't Have It, Data Migration: Enablers, How the West Supports Kleptocrats
This is a very well researched book with a wealth of actionable logistical facts for researchers. Does it succeed in engaging in a deep way, outside of the scope of organizations that exist already where they trace money and name names? No. Does it explain, casually, how democracy leads to shared investment and actionable problem solving and therefore leads to more tenacity that doesn't collapse as easily as the trauma-glue of totalitarianism? No. This is rich in "investigative journalism" low on the "philosophy" side. The main takeaway being of course that people don't enforce the end of bribery because most people will take a bribe. Again and again Putin has proven this to be correct. He has little to no respect for the West because he believes it is inundated in vanity of "not taking bribes" when he has seen little to no reason to believe that, bribery just hasn't infiltrated deep enough into the culture. That's true until there was a lot of German regulatory pushback, which was largely responsible for the end of the Ukrainian puppet state. And guess who are "the Nazis" now. If you don't take a bribe, you're a Nazi. If you don't let your nation collapse into a cesspit of addicted oligarchy due to severe enabling, it's slander time, like a kid having his lollipop taken away. Negative point number, what, 111 for Russia these days. That said, a lot of the West is embarrassingly for sale and Donald Trump proved that.