2.53 Tfum

The Eastern Border by Kristaps Andrejsons

Aug 20, 202643:24Society & Culture

Time to put on our Wall Street suits and dive into the spreadsheets to calculate the TFUM: The Total F*cked Up Metric. The Russian Federation isn't a state anymore; it's a wildly over-leveraged hedge fund/doomsday cult r...

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