I think they might reconsider it very shortly. The looting of the assets of Russian “oligarchs,” many of whom are totally unrelated to Putin, is an eye-opener.
My simple rule—whatever the elites can do to Russians today, they can do to you tomorrow.
No they wont. Their greatest fear is all of a sudden becoming an enemy of the state like China’s richest man, founder of Alibabba, Jack Ma. Phony charges and over night their wealth is confiscated. Xi and his faction of the party wage war against competing party groups. Its like when the US rats want to take someone out who gets out of line. Since they all have dirt, it’s easy. Coooomo (hat tip to Rush, rip) is a recent example.