The sad thing is that a good amount of these guys aren’t actually working for the state. A lot of them are actually immigrants who left Russia for more opportunities, but are still rampant nationalist attempting to damage the countries that gave them a new home.
But you gotta hand it to the guy, he took control of the most powerful nation the world has ever known
Eh, that’s kinda feeding into the propaganda surrounding him. In reality the Russian Federation is just run by the people who scammed the most citizens from their ownership rights after the privatization of the Soviet state. Since the fall of the Soviet state, it’s basically been pretending to be a world power by bullying smaller nations with the military it inherited.
His real talent is propagandizing and intimidating his way to the top of basically a government run by a mob.
it’s pretty clear who’s pulling the oompa-lumpas strings)
Again, I think this is exactly what they want you to think. I just think trump wants what Putin has, supreme power to whatever he wants, and a state where his cronies can do whatever they want so long as they are loyal. American oligarchs have been envious of Russian oligarchs for some time now.
This is going to be a hard pill to swallow for the Russian nationalist cosplaying as leftist on Lemmy…
More than likely possible depending on how they came up with valuations on old stock piles from the cold war. Depends on if you value them based on their original cost, or the modern cost to replace them.
I mean… If your only real accomplishment is inheriting huge sums of wealth, it makes a bunch of sense. I personally don’t really see the need for Trump to be compromised by Russian intelligence, American oligarchs have always been jealous of the federations kleptocracy.
What could be better for someone like Trump and his cronies than a system where as long as you’re loyal you can literally do anything you want?
Have a journalist poking around your business, simply introduce them to the window. A rival business won’t sell you their company for nothing? Make a call and have the government do a “corruption investigation”. Your company is coming under protest for displacing minority groups…off to jail for subversion.
The Russian Federation is just America in ten years of we don’t make a drastic about face. Our oligarchs have been pushing that way for a while, trump is just accelerating the process.
I mean it’s kinda hard to separate from COVID and the set back in their housing market. Basically in an attempt to meet their GDP quotas local governments loaned out way too much money to keep production. So local governments are in a lot of debt which at some point should have cascading effects on the economy.