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If they have money they have power
by singularity2001 5y ago
If they have money they have power
- usr1106 5y agoIf Putin is against you, no money on the planet helps. He will have you killed in England. It would require many oligarchs to form a conspiracy and remove him and several others from power. I have no insight, but my feeling is not enough people trust each other to do it. One leak or the slightest mistake and they are all dead.
- pixl97 5y agoThis only works if they aren't going to die in nuclear fires. Once this gets to the point enough think that crazy Ivan is going to really kick off a global thermonuclear war his own protection fails.
- rasz 5y agoNo one has tried retaliating yet. Set up a $100M 'assassinate Putin' fund and watch the fun.
- BurningFrog 5y agoMikhail Khodorkovsky was the richest oligarch in Russia. He criticised Putin in 2003 and spent the next 10 years in prison. The other oligarchs learned the lesson. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Khodorkovsky https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Khodorkovsky