Call the yellow cake America's fault, but realize Saddam was our ally against the Russians at the time.

Oh lord.....let's say this slowly THEY BOUGHT THE TECHNOLOGY FROM THE RUSSIANS AND CHINESE!!!!

( remember, it was touch and go with the Russians on nuclear war in 1980).

The German doctor stood up and said, "Well, medicine in my county is so advanced we can take a lung out of one person and put it into another and have him looking for work i n 4 weeks" The Russian doctor got up and said "My country is even more advanced, we can remove half a heart from one person, put it into another and have them both looking for work in just 2 weeks!"

Bethlehem Steel filed for bankruptcy in 2001, then it was sold in a series of transactions to an Indian company, which sold it to a Russian company, which then sold it to another company in 2012.

So yeah, local politicians here are looking like king size idiots.The actual neighborhoods SF is famous for are doing quite well with active daily street life (working from home helps) such as pac heights, mission, north beach, Hayes valley, Russian hill, inner sunset, noe valley, nob hill, etc. etc.

I want to make sure every sale isn't a game of Russian roulette.

If you have excellent credit and a little time, you can do this all yourself, but to me it's a little like playing Russian roulette when you play with credit cards at zero percent. 

If you are not a Russian or Ukrainian national then I would check to see if your bank is on the list of banks that are under sanction.There is also the possibility that one of the other funders was under sanction.  

In the one rented house lived four young Italians who came for fun and to the next one Russian family who had come for a relaxing holiday discovering the beauties of the island.