Quote Originally Posted by Hanna View Post
Greed managed to literally destroy a superpower that was really quite decent and had everything going for it at the end of WW2.

[Trying to work in a little Russian practice... ]

Именно чья жадность, и жадность к чему?! (Namely whose greed, and greed for what?!)

Do you mean the greed of a middle-class family who greedily wanted to eat steak four times a month (every Sunday), instead of having steak only once a month, and who greedily bought their made-in-China clothes at Walmart, instead of slightly more expensive made-in-Ukraine clothes from Macy's, so that they'd have some extra money for steak, and who greedily purchased an SUV because it had more cargo space so that they could save gas by going to the grocery store less often, and also because they greedily wanted to protect their children, and they believed that an SUV is more likely to survive a highway collision than a tiny economy car?