Krainer seems to understand the problem (moneylending oligarchies, usury, unpayable debts) but then seems to suggest that it is a struggle between two systems of governance. He seems to propose that the solution is an authoritarian government that would simply take a firm stance with respect to the oligarchs, allowing them to still profit from their business empires, but barring them from exercising political power.
So it doesn't look like he really wants to address the underlying problems with the monetary system.
Putin impresses me as a wise and practical statesman. He understood that in an outright war against the oligarchs he would lose, most likely through assassination, as some many reformers at divers times and places had before him. The results of his strategy speak for themselves.
Krainer seems to understand the problem (moneylending oligarchies, usury, unpayable debts) but then seems to suggest that it is a struggle between two systems of governance. He seems to propose that the solution is an authoritarian government that would simply take a firm stance with respect to the oligarchs, allowing them to still profit from their business empires, but barring them from exercising political power.
So it doesn't look like he really wants to address the underlying problems with the monetary system.
Putin impresses me as a wise and practical statesman. He understood that in an outright war against the oligarchs he would lose, most likely through assassination, as some many reformers at divers times and places had before him. The results of his strategy speak for themselves.