Some folks became billionaires in Russia simply because they were friends of Putin though.
These may truly be protected class. Everyone else though - out the window as soon as they outlive their usefulness.
mgnome
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Interesting how he wasn't just transferred to some "window looker" job (pun not intended).
Ministers in Russia are appointed basically by czar himself and firing such folks for their failures would mean admitting that czar made wrong decision when appointing them.
There's, of course, ol' classic "czar good, boyars bad", but still kinda surprising for me.
Not including Ukraine in there is a crime.
Okay, valid.
But planes in a country that can barely maintain them. And also famous Russian AA and their love for occasional friendly fire or shooting down civilian airliners.
What strikes me in these videos with lots of people stranded in Russian airports while plan "Carpet" is enacted due to drone activity is that all these people are goddamn stupid.
Like - lots of people but not a single braincell between them to whisper in the ear "take a goddamn train, your country is at war".
Art of the deal, folks.
utan
Taco Don already functionally stopped all aid and arms supply to Ukraine and trying his hardest to ignore Ukraine, and will probably chicken out from helping Taiwan defend itself too in case latter gets invaded.
So that's just China being asshole too and wanting Russia to succeed, because that'd mean you can take a dump on international laws and have benefits that outweigh repercussions.
If whatever remains of free democratic world won't get its shit together soon - we will just get picked apart eventually by those last iteration imperialists.
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That's not why people become dictators. Not to mention that in autocratic environments heads of states don't really feel the consequences of their actions, and don't really mind throwing millions of their own people under the bus to bring some ephemeral former glory back.