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The mind-boggling wealth and privilege of Russian oligarchs
Official W5 ^

Posted on 03/19/2024 4:11:03 PM PDT by Eleutheria5

W5 takes an in-depth look into who Russia's oligarchs are, and whether sanctioning them would stop President Vladimir Putin's invasion in Ukraine.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; Russia
KEYWORDS: collapse; oligarchs; putin; sovietunion
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1 posted on 03/19/2024 4:11:03 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
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To: Eleutheria5

What about America’s population control Oligarchs. Do they have less money? While they make us eat bugs, what will they be eating?


2 posted on 03/19/2024 4:13:33 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Give it a rest with your whatabout-ing.

This was made while Navalny was alive and on record. You want to talk about American oligarchs, go right ahead. But this is about Russia and some people’s hero: Putin.


3 posted on 03/19/2024 4:16:25 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: Eleutheria5

Why should I worry about 1 dictator 10,000 miles away, when we’ve got 10,000 dictators 1 mile away?


4 posted on 03/19/2024 4:18:14 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: Eleutheria5

The sanctions enriched these Oligarchs, morons !

They have been able to buy Western businesses at fire sale prices.


5 posted on 03/19/2024 4:18:59 PM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: Jan_Sobieski
What, you worry?

The oligarchs are in the United States. They own houses. They influence finance. Ever read John Donne?
6 posted on 03/19/2024 4:21:05 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: Reverend Wright

Did I say what to do about them? I’m posting a Canadian expose of oligarchs in Russia. You figure out what to do about it. But it seems your only problem with oligarchs is that someone’s talking about them.


7 posted on 03/19/2024 4:23:33 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: Eleutheria5
Whatever.


8 posted on 03/19/2024 4:26:05 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: Eleutheria5

They loot & rape the country, while the ordinary citizens are sent to the front to be killed

“Russian equality”


9 posted on 03/19/2024 4:26:38 PM PDT by canuck_conservative (NATO - now celebrating 75 successful years of keeping the Russian monsters out!!)
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To: Eleutheria5

An American oligarch named Marc Zuckerberg dropped $450 million to help steal the election on 2019. He must be your hero.


10 posted on 03/19/2024 4:32:22 PM PDT by wildcard_redneck (He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.)
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To: canuck_conservative

“They loot & rape the country, while the ordinary citizens are sent to the front to be killed”

-———is this about NeoCon wars ?


11 posted on 03/19/2024 4:33:02 PM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: Eleutheria5

It’s not just Russian oligarch’s. Every nation seems to have a version of its own oligarch overlords.


12 posted on 03/19/2024 4:38:02 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: wildcard_redneck

Why must he be my hero? Did you go to a special stupid school, majoring in non-sequiturs?

There are Russian oligarchs, American oligarchs, Ukrainian oligarchs, Chinese oligarchs, and probably a bunch of other oligarchs of other nations, equally vile. But this video is about Russian oligarchs. If you can post one about Mort Zuckerberg, I will not belly-ache about it. He’s nothing to me.


13 posted on 03/19/2024 4:44:03 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: Robert DeLong

Russian oligarchs, however, got their money by being licensed looters of the ruins of the Soviet Union, courtesy of Putin and maybe also Yeltsin. So they are especially egregious.


14 posted on 03/19/2024 4:45:27 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: Eleutheria5
How did the rest of them get their wealth? Ukraine did the same. Oligarchs the world over are ruthless people who really only care about personal power. The money is only the means to obtaining that power. They are not great people in way, shape or form.

Do not fool yourself with regards to Oligarchs. Their supposed philanthropy is just a device to obtain more wealth.

15 posted on 03/19/2024 4:56:39 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Eleutheria5

Youb must be too stupid to realize that when you point the finger at somebody there’s four pointing back at you.


16 posted on 03/19/2024 5:02:41 PM PDT by wildcard_redneck (He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.)
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To: Robert DeLong

“How did the rest of them get their wealth? “ Mort Zuckerberg started an internet company that took off, made an IPO and became a corporate giant, then joined the deep state. Can you really equate that with members of Putin’s inner circle entering into a Faustian bargain with Putin and in exchange making off with important infrastructure and major wealth? Not the same thing at all.


17 posted on 03/19/2024 5:03:39 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: wildcard_redneck

All ten of my fingers are on my keyboard, and I decided to share an interesting video about Russian oligarchs, and you’re getting all upset about it. Attaboy. Stand up for Russian oligarchs. This video might have hurt their feelings. Good grief, Charlie Brown.


18 posted on 03/19/2024 5:07:16 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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The Russian Oligarch fleet of superyachts outnumbers the Russian navy.

There are approximately 370 Russian superyachts.

The Russian navy has about 350 active ships, not including those that are currently detached to the Bottom of the Black Sea Squadron.


19 posted on 03/19/2024 5:14:37 PM PDT by MeganC ("Russians are subhuman" - posted by Kazan 8 March 2024)
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To: Eleutheria5

“The mind-boggling wealth and privilege of Russian oligarchs”

The mind-boggling wealth and privilege of US billionaires

There,fixed it


20 posted on 03/19/2024 5:19:58 PM PDT by antidemoncrat
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