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Re:Russian Ruble just lost ~30% of its value by singularity2001 on Monday February 28, 2022 @03:16AM (#30497582)
If they have money they have power
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Re:Russian Ruble just lost ~30% of its value by BurningFrog on Monday February 28, 2022 @10:31AM (#30500869)
Mikhail Khodorkovsky was the richest oligarch in Russia. He criticised Putin in 2003 and spent the next 10 years in prison.

The other oligarchs learned the lesson.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Khodorkovsky

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Re:Russian Ruble just lost ~30% of its value by usr1106 on Monday February 28, 2022 @07:02AM (#30498947)
If Putin is against you, no money on the planet helps. He will have you killed in England.

It would require many oligarchs to form a conspiracy and remove him and several others from power. I have no insight, but my feeling is not enough people trust each other to do it. One leak or the slightest mistake and they are all dead.

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Re:Russian Ruble just lost ~30% of its value by pixl97 on Monday February 28, 2022 @07:56AM (#30499319)
This only works if they aren't going to die in nuclear fires. Once this gets to the point enough think that crazy Ivan is going to really kick off a global thermonuclear war his own protection fails.
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Re:Russian Ruble just lost ~30% of its value by rasz on Monday February 28, 2022 @08:40AM (#30499663)
No one has tried retaliating yet.

Set up a $100M 'assassinate Putin' fund and watch the fun.

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