[herenorthere]

But directly equating Russian oligarchs to American businessmen makes for a better headline, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

But in all seriousness, I'm glad that someone was here in the comments section to break down the nuances of this rather contentious analogy. So TY

[Bendingo]

> equating Russian oligarchs to American businessmen

Do you understand that many Russian oligarchs actually were American Businessmen?

Eg; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Browder

[erikpukinskis]

Ya, sounds like a real Russian Oligarch all right:

“ Eighteen months after Browder was deported, on June 4, 2007, Hermitage Capital's offices in Moscow were raided by twenty-five officers of Russia's Interior Ministry. Twenty-five more officers raided the Moscow office of Browder's American law firm, Firestone Duncan, seizing the corporate registration documents for Hermitage's investment holding companies. Browder assigned Sergei Magnitsky, head of the tax practice at Firestone Duncan, to investigate the purpose of the raid. He discovered that while those documents were in the custody of the police, they had been used to fraudulently reregister Hermitage's holding companies to the name of an ex-convict.[6]”