These oligarchs have suffered massive reversals of fortune after sanctions were placed on their main source of revenue. After the stock market crash of 1929, you had people jumping out windows. These individuals decided to take their families with them.
Russian execs with ties to gas companies are dropping like flies around globe, authorities bizarrely blame it on machismo?
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Putin used to be KGB and rose up through the FSB. He has cemented his hold on power through plausible deniability. The FSB or other parts of the Russian government never get their hands dirty with poisoning people or assassinations. Instead, people who want something from the government (contracts, loan forgiveness, etc.) will approach a government official and tell them that they know the government isn't happy with (insert journalist, opposition leader, oligarch, etc.). The government official then lets that person know that they know that they want the contract for the new water plant and appreciate their concern about (journalist, opposition leader, etc.). This is a signal that the government will do what you want if you take out their enemy. These communications can often go through multiple intermediaries to maintain plausible deniability or to just cover tracks completely.
Putin definitely understands that the oligarchs are the only check on his power. It seems pretty clear that Putin is doing everything he can to make sure he consolidates power among his closest and most loyal oligarch allies and is trying to take out anyone who might be a threat to his hold on power.
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Precious Roy wrote:
Putin used to be KGB and rose up through the FSB. He has cemented his hold on power through plausible deniability. The FSB or other parts of the Russian government never get their hands dirty with poisoning people or assassinations. Instead, people who want something from the government (contracts, loan forgiveness, etc.) will approach a government official and tell them that they know the government isn't happy with (insert journalist, opposition leader, oligarch, etc.). The government official then lets that person know that they know that they want the contract for the new water plant and appreciate their concern about (journalist, opposition leader, etc.). This is a signal that the government will do what you want if you take out their enemy. These communications can often go through multiple intermediaries to maintain plausible deniability or to just cover tracks completely.
Putin definitely understands that the oligarchs are the only check on his power. It seems pretty clear that Putin is doing everything he can to make sure he consolidates power among his closest and most loyal oligarch allies and is trying to take out anyone who might be a threat to his hold on power.
Wow that's quite a list. I am sure it's just coincidental. ;-)
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I would say either Putin services found out they were maybe too critical of Putin regime and his decisions, and they were trying to organize themselves to make a coup.
It is possible they found out even higher level oligarchs were thinking the same way, but decided to eliminate the lower ranked ones, to send a message to those high level ones.
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They saw Putin making it with a male pig, and he had to take them out before they talked.
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joedlrt wrote:
My guess would be Ukrainian gangsters acting on soft targets in Europe on a contract basis against Russian interests. The EU sanctions only go so far, as there are ways to move money around sanctions. Unless their is legitimate mortal fear among the entities behind the Ukraine invasion (primarily the organizations and oligarchs that profit the most from the war), there will be no end to the war. Killing soldiers is great, but in the big picture they are of little consequence to the Russian goal. When you start taking out the entities behind the war that felt secure in risking the lives of others for their own financial gain, then you start hastening an end to the conflict.
This is just as likely as Putin ordering it. When two groups of savage people go to war, there are no rules.
I was walking along a pleasant street in Kyiv a few years ago, when some Ukrainian businessman got blown up in his car in the next road.
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How the heck is Zalenskiy still breathing?
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