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Garry Kasparov recently made the same connection in this piece: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/02/putinization-america/681837/ https://w
by af78 2y ago
Garry 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.