Many of my friends from Moscow are no longer in Moscow. Destruction of human capital in Russia.

It’s not easy to objectively measure the damage that Putin inflicted on the country he’s supposedly “protecting” — Russia. But I remain of the opinion that he, with a flick of his finger, destroyed the nation he was responsible for governing; damaged the livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people for generations to come.

Every now and then you’d see an article about how the sanctions against Russia are useless or how the rouble regained the value it’d lost since the…