The Sberank in the center of Kiev is licking its wounds after yesterday's armed attack. Now they change the storefront and signs more often than they give commercial loans. Russian banks, it seems, are not so perturbed. Many Ukrainian citizens have decided not to return the money they owe on Russian bank loans. On the contrary, they are shifting their deposits to banks painted in the patriotic colors of yellow and blue with official permission from the government and National Bank of Ukraine.
200 billion for Kiev from Russian state corporations
"For the first half of 2016, VTB Bank suffered a loss in the amount of $200 million," says expert from the Eurasian Economic Union's Russian Institute of Strategic Studies Alisa Abaeva. "The National Bank of Ukraine is pursuing a specific policy towards Russian banks and putting the emphasis on influencing us with negative consequences," she explained.
Comment: The reality is that Clinton and the media won't call Trump out because they agree with him.
However...
Trump may in fact have a point (though he may not have intended to make it).
US military-technological superiority IS facing a serious challenge, from both Russia and China.
We have a theory, one we can't really test unless the US and Russia go head-to-head (which they won't), so, for what it's worth, here it is:
The US may outdo Russia in terms of the quantity of its arsenal, but Russia now has better quality; specifically, Russia has weapons that can penetrate US defenses, but the US has nothing that can penetrate Russian defenses.
We're not sure of that, so don't quote us on it, but it would explain why the US is too chicken to physically 'put Russia back in its place', and must instead resort to incessant black propaganda.