[vandreas2]

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.

[blaser-waffle]

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