Not clear how they determine “net worth” in countries like Russia. Many rich individuals there make money through corruption and the money are being hidden in various ways.
The same things prevalent in Russia are the same things everywhere else
Anyone can form a trust and merely write on the paper that it is adhering to the laws of a random jurisdiction anywhere in their country or anywhere in the world, and that paper is never registered with the state but is able to hold banks accounts and titles and the beneficiaries are never known to anyone, or can be swapped out after the bank account is formed
Trust net worth is never included on your personal net worth, nobody knows anything
The most interesting thing about Oligarchs are that they were raised under a communist system and understood capitalism better than people raised under a capitalist system, who hardly understand communism either. Everyone should study what they saw and anticipated, so you can be prepared to make some oligarch level trades too and keep it as opaque as necessary. You have the same tools. It literally takes a multinational coalition of sanctions against your country and you for this to ever be investigated in a half effort way, and thats not going to happen, and even then the assets have difficulty being seized by countries that follow the rule of law
What's equally fascinating is how they manage to brainwash and agitate so many people to kill each other, from their remote estates in Dubai, Spain, Italy, France, and from yachts in the open sea. Many countries can be called "rich country of poor people" but Russia, Belarus, Ukraine indisputably beat all competition.
If you’re referring to the content and troll farms I don’t think those are run by oligarchs
just random working class folks trying to get by
Oligarchs have cuts of revenue streams from an oil refinery or a piece of a grain silo, random titles to revenue generating things built with Federal agency budgets given away for practically free when the government wasn't going to own the means of production anymore. Just had to be there.
ah, yeah. I’ve run into social media marketers for products that told me they can do the same for NGOs, politicians, they named India, Russia, states within countries I never heard of, US
domestic propaganda is huge, definitely flies under the radar
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Not clear how they determine “net worth” in countries like Russia. Many rich individuals there make money through corruption and the money are being hidden in various ways.
The same things prevalent in Russia are the same things everywhere else
Anyone can form a trust and merely write on the paper that it is adhering to the laws of a random jurisdiction anywhere in their country or anywhere in the world, and that paper is never registered with the state but is able to hold banks accounts and titles and the beneficiaries are never known to anyone, or can be swapped out after the bank account is formed
Trust net worth is never included on your personal net worth, nobody knows anything
The most interesting thing about Oligarchs are that they were raised under a communist system and understood capitalism better than people raised under a capitalist system, who hardly understand communism either. Everyone should study what they saw and anticipated, so you can be prepared to make some oligarch level trades too and keep it as opaque as necessary. You have the same tools. It literally takes a multinational coalition of sanctions against your country and you for this to ever be investigated in a half effort way, and thats not going to happen, and even then the assets have difficulty being seized by countries that follow the rule of law
What's equally fascinating is how they manage to brainwash and agitate so many people to kill each other, from their remote estates in Dubai, Spain, Italy, France, and from yachts in the open sea. Many countries can be called "rich country of poor people" but Russia, Belarus, Ukraine indisputably beat all competition.
Can you elaborate?
If you’re referring to the content and troll farms I don’t think those are run by oligarchs
just random working class folks trying to get by
Oligarchs have cuts of revenue streams from an oil refinery or a piece of a grain silo, random titles to revenue generating things built with Federal agency budgets given away for practically free when the government wasn't going to own the means of production anymore. Just had to be there.
At least some troll farms were run by Prigozhin, an oligarch. Then there is intense domestic propaganda directed at domestic population.
ah, yeah. I’ve run into social media marketers for products that told me they can do the same for NGOs, politicians, they named India, Russia, states within countries I never heard of, US
domestic propaganda is huge, definitely flies under the radar