Posted on 10/14/2022 6:46:39 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
It’s a rough year to be a high-profile Russian: After nearly eight months of war in Ukraine, the Russian military is reeling and on its back foot; sanctions continue to squeeze the country’s economy and elite — and at least 15 Russian businessmen and executives have died in apparent accidents or by suicide, including a number of Putin allies.
The victims range from an executive with Gazprom, a major state-owned oil company, to the managing director of a state-run development corporation. The causes of death range from unremarkable — a stroke, for example — to lurid, such as death by toad poison in a shaman’s basement.
Combined, the sheer number of deaths, as well as the prominence of the dead and a long history of suspicious demises in Putin’s Russia, have raised questions about whether something other than ordinary bad luck is at fault.
According to Stanislav Markus, an associate professor at the University of South Carolina business school and author of Property, Predation, and Protection: Piranha Capitalism in Russia and Ukraine, it’s a near certainty. “We can almost certainly rule out the official explanation of the deaths as suicides or poor health,” Markus told me via email.
He’s not alone; theories vary — and generally don’t feature some grand conspiracy by the Kremlin — but a number of Russia experts see “more than just randomness” in the deaths, as Syracuse University professor Brian Taylor, who specializes in Russian politics and is the author of The Code of Putinism, put it to me in an interview.
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In these cases, it’s probably not the vaxx...
The Kremlin Flu is back.
Have the Clintons set up a branch office in Russia?
Polonium 210-itis.................
An epidemic of Defenestration broke out in Russia. Billionaires and oligarchs hit hardest.
Clintons are lending Vlad their expertise?
No one? Right. A great many people know why. It’s the ‘Who’ that almost everyone doesn’t know. A very few know all.
The same thing is happening in China. Both Putin and Xi are consolidating their power.
America is doing similar, just using social ostracization instead of death.
Cancel culture is social death.
It’s the COVID shot, of course.🤪🤪🤪
Putincide
1. clot shot,
2. knew too much on the Clintons, or
3. tried to outlaw vodka and replace it with Jack Daniels.
A story about the stock market crash of 1929 - when people would ask for a hotel room, the clerk would ask “For Sleeping or Jumping?” if jumping - they would put them on the higher floors...
Whatever the disease is that is killing them I hope it comes to America .
That reminds me. Is Xi still missing.
I do not recall seeing him on for quite some time now.
Anyone:
Bueller Bueller
Xi Xi
? ?
Well, they’re the heaviest, so naturally.
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