[Nifster]

Curiouser and curiouser

[Mark17]

Do you think these are accidents?

No, but I don’t know how to say Arkancide in Russian.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

A typical Democrat Party inside struggle purge?

[Angelino97]

It's how the ruling elite have always done business. The European monarchs, Roman emperors, ancient kings of Israel and its neighbors, emperors of China...

Periods of good republican government and rule of law have been rare in human history. America used to be in such a period, but is fast devolving into normalcy.

[Gen.Blather]

I listened to a Kremlin watcher analyst. He said that Russia is a kleptocracy. Putin decides who gets the money. He bases that on whose loyalty he must buy. The statement put out by the company wasn’t anti invasion, it was an attempt to avoid sanctions and wasn’t critical of the Kremlin in any way. It said, “War is bad. Violence is bad.
We hope this is over soon.”

The idea that anyone would murder these men without clearance directly from Putin is absurd. (According to the analyst.) The probability is that Putin has decided that the money needs to be redistributed to newer and better allies.

It is rather like the top guy in the Mafia deciding to redistribute the pie to new capos.

[tlozo]

The Dead Bodies of Russian Oil Oligarchs Keep Piling Up—Tally Now up to 8 Since January

Darth Putin @DarthPutinKGB

List of people who’ve annoyed Kremlin & been poisoned:

Anna Politkovskaya

Vladimir Kara Murza (twice)

Petr Verzilov

Alexander Litvinenko

Sergei Skripal

Alexander Perepilichny

Yuri Shchekochikhin

Emilian Gebrev

Viktor Yushchenko

Alexey Navalny

Pro Kremlin figures poisoned:

...

[GingisK]

Eight isn’t a “pile”. The Russians have demonstrated what piles of bodies look like, mountains really.

[EQAndyBuzz]

The oligarchy was in cahoots with our deep state, washing money through Ukraine.