>>However, (as old fox Dragan warned very early back then) none of that change for better actually happened. As it turned out (in both cases!) it was all complete setup. All that positive energy and need for real change (which might have very well exploded into popular uprising back then) was brilliantly coerced and defused by 'Obama project'.
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>There's about zero pleasure in it, but there it is: I told you so.

Which is much preferable to "I could have told you so"; to which my standard response is: "Well, why didn't you at the time?"