I may agree with what you said about post-WW2, but I believe that post-Communism the west was entirely unhelpful to Russia, as to many other societies. Russia would have done much better without the "shock therapy" and would probably be doing much better than it is under a leader who cares more about the Russian people instead of an egocentric tyrant who has been most successful at building a personality cult around himself while he has silly dreams about restoring the Romanov/Soviet Empire.
I deleted a paragraph about Greece, whose problems involve her own crooked politicians, our own crooked bankers (especially at Goldman Sachs) and the European Union, especially Angela Merkel and Wolfgang Schäubel. Unless the Greek people rise up against the EU's austerity regime, they are in for thirty years of enforced poverty. It has nothing to do with Russia.
One of the reasons I didn't really address the problems Western vs. Eastern Europe because be limiting the discussion to Western Europe, which is doing fine, thank you, inhibits discussions of the IMF in Argentina (a failure of the IMF's methods and again an example of the necessity of a popular uprising against a corrupt and tyrannical global banking system), or, for that matter, a discussion of two other basket cases, which you brought up in the first post on your thread, Iraq and Libya. What wonders western intervention worked in Iraq and Libya. Syria is a basket case, too, and you can blame that on the Russians for sure, but the point is that it isn't just the Russians fucking up the world.
Outside of Europe, your model generally does not hold, and even inside of Europe, it doesn't hold in the case of Greece, the trashing of which has more to do with Wall Street and European subterfuge than with the failings anybody in Greece.
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