Vladimir Putin is pushing Russia into past: Maybe a generation, maybe a century

Re:Vladimir Putin is pushing Russia into past: Maybe a gener... by tablespoon on Thursday March 10, 2022 @01:34PM (#30630594)

> "The world was theirs", they could show off their wealth in Paris, in London, in Florence, in New York, in Athens and Mallorca, in Tel Aviv and Sydney. Do you think they would be happy of having their world "shrink" to just Russia and China?

We'll see, but "being unhappy" is a far cry from deciding to take on some KGB goon who appears to have no compunction against murdering rivals.

I highly doubt there will be regime change in Russia because some politically-connected oligarchs' wives can't flout their Hermes handbags in Paris. That seems far more like a fantasy than a realistic expectation.

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Re:Vladimir Putin is pushing Russia into past: Maybe a gener... by ithkuil on Thursday March 10, 2022 @10:24PM (#30635770)

I agree. Just saying that it's not that oligarchs will just get their goods from china and nothing will change for them. Whether that's going to have any impact whatsoever is another story.

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