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I think you misunderstand how scared everyone around Putin is of him and the KGB. Especially the oligarchs - you think they give him 50% of their money because
by andy_ppp 5y ago
I think you misunderstand how scared everyone around Putin is of him and the KGB. Especially the oligarchs - you think they give him 50% of their money because they really appreciate how nice and kind Putin is?
- JonChesterfield 5y agoI assume the working theory is that the KGB are not delighted with the present circumstances.
- xdennis 5y agoMy understanding (from reading All the Kremlin's Men), is that Putin's strength is overstated in the West and that he rules with the approval of the oligarchs. If they turn on him, he might just die from an undiagnosed tumor.
- thriftwy 5y agoThey will turn on him to lose the war and pay through the nose, and then continue to suffer all the consequences in hopes that it ends eventually? It sounds like a semi-plausible option but a bad plan.
- livueta 5y agoOn one hand you're right, but on the other - that sort of thing isn't exactly unprecedented. Everyone was terrified of Beria until they weren't. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavrentiy_Beria#Arrest,_trial_and_execution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavrentiy_Beria#Arrest,_trial_...
- dragonwriter 5y ago> I think you misunderstand how scared everyone around Putin is of him and the KGB. I suspect more people around Putin are afraid of the FSB than the KGB.
- ttyprintk 5y agoPatrushev, to be specific among the political attendants.
- teaearlgraycold 5y agoWhy would anyone be loyal to Putin when they're not getting paid like they used to be? The ruble is already crashing and Russian markets open soon.