Russia is toast.....burnt toast. After Yeltsin dies next year and at the height of disruptions, the cash-rich Russian mafia, in partnership with the military brass, will take control of the parliament through financing of stooge candidates. The rape of Russian resources and assets, by both underground and 'officially authorized' criminal elements, will go un-impeded for quite some time. The Russian citizens will be the true victims as the international money communities cut their loses and run. Russia will plunge into a Dark Age of rampant crime, tribal warfare along ethnic lines and total economic collapse.

The Russian organized crime families will get in bed with the military brass. The Military will provide the muscle (official use-of-force) and the mobsters will provide the money to pay the soldiers. Ethical soldiers of concience will desert and start an underground resistance movement but won't make inroads until 2003.

In the fall of 2001, the international community will become more concerned with the ruthless power and almost unlimited finances the Russian criminals wield in foreign countries. The NATO ally countries will implement the first orchestrated justice action against the Russian mob and their liason with other organized crime groups and terrorists around the world.

They will model their action after the Italian organized crime clean-up in the early 1970's.Expect massive round-ups and quick imprisonment of many adult male Russian immigrants and terrorists and their assets frozen in participating countries. Anyone Russian or their close associates, who cannot show how or where they obtained their wealth will be imprisoned while being investigated. The old civil-rights method of investigation then retention will prove too over-whelming a task for regular law inforcement procedures. The rules will change to accommodate quick justice and a thirst by everyone to get at the murderers.

Civil Rights leaders will protest but the public will ignore them and back their governments especially when confiscated assets start funding new schools, hospitals and retiring government deficits and debts. One revealing story will be of a group of Russian 'businessmen' who own a cafe in Germany which has shown legally excepted by-the-government profits of over $10 million dollars per month! Many law officials and innocent citizens will die at the hands of Russian mobsters and their partners in many countries before the world wakes up and takes action. Many government officials will go to jail in the clean-up.

Part of the upheaval will be at the IMF and the World Bank who've squandered almost $60 billion dollars of mostly the West's tax-payer funded loans, that ended up in the Russia mobs private coffers over the past few years. Presently, this is being hidden from elected officials and the public of the donor countries. This is the grosses and largest money crime in Man's history and will remain so forever. All other crimes of theft pale in comparison to the amounts stolen from the IMF \ World Bank loans and grants to Russia and their satellite States. Later 2001, extensive audits will take place at those institutions after the donor countries threaten to pull out of future contributions and do so. It will be revealed that many billions over many years have disappeared into IMF \World Bank officals private accounts before recepient treasuries had even seen a dollar!

I suspect that world governments are letting the Russian mobsters have free reign in their societies at present. They view them as a money machine posed for the picking for BIG cash when they'll desperately need it. War will bring on that desperation. Why legalize and tax illegal drugs, gambling, prostitution, and the black markets when they can swoop down when the going gets tough, and reap in 10's of billions of dollars in huge, publicly spectacular, vote-getting busts? As soon as the governments think they have the need and the international cooperation and the organizations together, the donor countries are going to take their money back, along with the 'profits' those funds have generated. Some mobsters who manage to arrange their freedom while awaiting trial, will flee back home or to safe countries. The law officials won't care very much, for the criminals forfeit their multi-million dollar bail bonds, are tried inabsentia and most importantly, the assets obtained by crime go to the governments.

Russia will be a basket case for at least five years, and remain internationally isolated until they, themselves get their own house in order. The IMF and the World Bank will be dissolved and new, streamlined, highly accountable organizations will be created in their place.

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