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Bernardo de La Paz

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7. Actually, ... it will be the oligarchs who decide. Putin is a mob boss, but he isn't producing

Reply to Stuart G (Original post)

Wed Mar 2, 2022, 09:48 PM

Mar 2022

He's messing up their game. Costing them giga-rubles, tera-rubles (At 100 to 1, a tera-ruble is $10 billion).

Mob bosses don't stay Da Capo if they don't produce.

They will tell him to retire to the $1 billion palatial estate he is building.

Putin has fearsome levers of power as President (dictator) but is also supported by the oligarchs. In these kinds of things, it is a question of who breaks the ice, bursts the dam, etc., but they have every incentive to sideline Putin now.

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It is possible Putin has made a huge mistake, that will cost him a whole lot. [View all] Stuart G Mar 2022 OP

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Actually, ... it will be the oligarchs who decide. Putin is a mob boss, but he isn't producing Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2022 #7

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