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His close circle of oligarchs and military chiefs are not Putin groupies they 're just getting massively greased. When the tide changes the calculations change. They signed up for a kleptocracy not to get sanctioned and their assets seized.


This is also why there has been an aggressive push to seize oligarch boats, money, etc. Put pressure on them to make something happen domestically.

Discussions around the Magnitsky_Act* went into detail about this, and it came up again during the Trump Impeachments.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnitsky_Act




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