This doesn't make sense. What makes money 'dirty'? What about banks like Goldman Sachs? Is their money 'clean'? What about the Saudi and UAE investment funds? How does one decide what is 'dirty' and 'clean' money and identify it?
However I do have the feeling that Russia's current behaviour is quantitatively if not qualitatively different.
In it's scale, it's cynicism and in it's deliberate single mindedness. I'm not a great believer in good vs evil on the geopolitical stage but a move this blatant needs to be resisted because if it succeeds it will become the new normal.
And yet here you are discussing "cynicism and [...] deliberate single mindedness".
As a lefty, you fail to put things in perspective... But I guess it's just not convenient, sometimes, is it?
PS - I'm from the UK - not US if that changes things.
I think you may be arguing with an imaginary straw man version of me. I'm not sure I stand for the things you're railing against.
As a language, it's a disaster. I better worry about more important things, and not waste more time with it.