GarryB Sun Apr 17, 2022 3:21 am
All oligarchs world wide are selfish evil people who care more about themselves than their countries or the people in them.
The Russian government can tell rich Russians what to do just as much as US or UK politicians can... money is power and these people control western politicians.
How many carrier groups could Beezos afford with his 120 billion personal wealth?
But then that is his money, so why is that relevant... did you sponsor a tank for the army of the country you live in?
Besides ironically these yachts and assets being seized are in the west, and most of the Russian oligarchs have already fled Russia to live in the west so they are only Russian oligarchs because that is where they stole their money from.
It is actually good for Russia that these assets are being seized because it makes ethnically Russian rich people fear having their wealth located in the west because evil western governments can make any accusation they like and steal their property... just say they are friends with Putins gardner and then seize their house and lock their bank accounts.
This is brilliant for Russia because it means most will try to return their money and wealth back to Russia even if they lose a lot on tax they will keep most of it.
This is a case of the west being dumber than normal.
It is like soccer teams... with that Russian selling that British soccer team... hahahaha... he wasn't Russian... that is where the money he stole came from... most of the Russian billionaires got CIA seed money to buy up Soviet state assets like factories etc etc and then asset strip them of anything valuable like machinery and tools, fire the staff and keep their pension funds and then sell it to someone else all for an enormous profit... that is how you get to be a billionaire so easily.
You have to be a real cold hearted
because you are essentially destroying the lives of your workers because their pensions are now gone, and many are now also unemployed, but you made a lot of easy money... so you piss off to London and buy a soccer team and they all think you are wonderful... for a dirty ugly Russian...
I would say take their yachts and their soccer teams and really you should also be doing that to your own 1%s because they have far too much money too... it is obscene.