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@no1marauder saidPardon my error, I knew it was
I was quoting Fareed Zakaria (hence the quote marks and the link to the article written by him).
out of character, course for Zakaria too.
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@no1marauder saidYou're ignoring - why? - that we're not talking about just some rich people here. We're talking about a borderline criminal class of oligarchs who use their wealth to prop up Putin's dictatorship. Yes, they're guilty of supporting this war, and yes, they deserve to feel the heat for that.
Is a rich person (or any person for that matter) from Country A part of a "criminal enterprise" because Country A does something contrary to international law?
That's a pretty far reaching concept.
@shallow-blue saidCould you actually put that in the context I used it? And not invent quotes?
Ah. Now we see the real you. 'Not a real country', eh?
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You really are naive. Russia DEPENDS on US banks to launder their kill money and when they don't have that they don't get the cash they need for spare parts for the military.
Eventually that will wear them down. For the present, Putin could give a crap how many Russians starve, how many Russians die in battle, just chess pieces to him so he will just continue to throw military might at Ukraine hoping they collapse sooner rather than later. Later is definitely not good from Putin's POV.
He has to take over quickly, not turn this into another Vietnam.