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I read recently that Moscow now has more billionaires than any other city in the world...these vast fortunes are being picked like low hanging fruit from the collapse of the USSR...many of the fortunes have been made using less than legit methods and the political insiders left holding the reins of the old Soviet Regime have benefitted greatly by the new “arrangement”...of the Russian economic and political system...
The former USSR was plundered, and previously state owned resources were “resold” at “bargain rates” or just given away to well connected insiders...What we are seeing here is the tail end of the whole Communist fiasco....
Communism is the excuse that Capitalism uses to transfer rights of all sorts from previous owners to themselves...often with violent takeovers...
These recent disclosures and court documents are exposing and pointing to a vast and corrupt world of plutocrats and kleptocrats...glimpses into the everyday business world of many of the 1%ers...
You all should read the court docs of the Manafort case...it is truly mind-boggling to see the wheeling, dealing, and tax evasion schemes going on....
But the truly sad thing is that for every Manafort, there are 1000’s more doing the same thing and not being caught...things that have been going on for years...the lure of big money and power is just too much for these high rollers...
...high political posts are being used mostly for in-group fortune empire building...Politics, like war...is a racket, and to place your heart felt, tear-eyed, sympathies in demagogues of any persuasion nowadays is vain, futile...and dangerous...
Last edited by VigorsTheGrey; 09-18-2018 at 09:56 PM.
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