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I'm not sure he understands that he will always be the Crassus to someone else's Caesar. Things don't go well for the money man.
by pclmulqdq 2y ago
I'm not sure he understands that he will always be the Crassus to someone else's Caesar. Things don't go well for the money man.
- ajb 2y agoYeah, he reminds me of Berezovsky.
- af78 2y agoGarry Kasparov recently made the same connection in this piece: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/02/putinization-america/681837/ https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/02/pu... > Berezovsky, who elevated Putin to power from behind the scenes, was soon exiled and replaced with more compliant oligarchs. He also met a grisly end—found hanged at his Berkshire mansion at 67—a precedent that might give pause to anyone thinking of risking his business empire to play that gray-cardinal role for the likes of Trump and J. D. Vance.
- nouveaux 2y agoThe mistake here is equating Putin to Trump. One is a mastermind and the other is a puppet.
- benterix 2y ago> One is a mastermind and the other is a puppet. No, one is a cruel fox and another one is a stupid monkey. Their skills lie mainly in adaptability to the situations they found themselves in and using them, but neither is a mastermind.
- af78 2y agoI did not understand it that way. Putin is probably smarter than Trump (though he does not deserve to be regarded as a mastermind IMHO). The parallel I find interesting is that both are authoritarians who were helped to power by billionaires who thought it would serve their interests. We know the fate Russian “oligarchs” later met.
- disqard 2y agoRandom Unexpected Defenestrations
- tpm 2y ago> We know the fate Russian “oligarchs” later met. Russians close to power have historically often met that fate - at least since 1917, I suspect either prison or forced internal or external exile was more common before that. Americans not so much I think, so this probably won't transfer.
- drcongo 2y agoI'd have him more the Incitatus to Trump's Caligula.
- p3rls 2y agoHistory shows us that things actually go pretty well for the money man you just gotta remember to bring extra water rations when you march into Asia. I always liked to imagine him rallying his troops by telling them that Parthia meant virgin in greek or something like that Παρθία/παρθένος Lots of examples from American history too though where things turn out better like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Girard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Girard
- orwin 2y agoIt took Hugenberg 6 month to loose his government position, 8 to loose his mediatic empire, and a bit more to loose his industrial base.
- ndsipa_pomu 2y agoHere's how to remember which one to use: lose -> lost loose -> loosened
- orwin 2y agoThanks, i'll try to remember.
- ndsipa_pomu 2y agoIt's a very common mistake, so don't worry about it