In a statement released on Tuesday, the Kremlin said that Starovoit, 53, had taken his own life and that Putin was “shocked” by his death.
Starovoit is among a number of state officials and prominent businessmen who have died in mysterious circumstances since the beginning of the war in Ukraine. Putin’s foes and critics have often met with violent deaths.
Right!? Who looks at this and thinks to themselves that they want to live in this kind of system?
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I’m not talking about the Russian oligarchs.
I’m talking about the American oligarchs. If you are Elon musk or Peter thiel, how do you look at the Russian system and think that your circumstances will be improved by a lower tax rate, but which comes with the requirement that you are subject to the whims of a capricious psychopath?
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They think they’ll be the ones ordering the executions.
“Why pay living wages if competitors use slave labor?
Why fund elections if rivals buy politicians?
Why defend norms if fascists deregulate?” Defection becomes rational until the system implodes.