I took a training class in Europe nearly 30 years ago and there were people from around the world there. Notably, there was a man there from South Africa and he didn't have many positive things to say about the US because of the sanctions we put on his country. He couldn't buy basic things that we could like a VCR or cordless phone and yeah I know it was high tech 30 years ago, but he wasn't allowed to buy them and bought the in Europe before he returned home. Now that we have interfered and turned his country back to the native population, they can't feed themselves, they're lawless and in general their once thriving country has turned to crap.
So for Rasputin, I suppose we liberated South Africa from apartheid and ruined their country at the same time.