[morkalork]

Take the Russian oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin for example, he did in fact have his own mercenary army. Turning on his president did not end well for him.

[__d]

Yes. But. I imagine the others did not fail to learn from this.

[zetalyrae]

What evidence would falsify this idea that wealth alone gives you political power?

[sooheon]

This straw man doesn't merit falsification. Nobody claims wealth alone gives political power. Wealth applies leverage to all endeavors, but political ends still require strategy and operationalization. It's just a lot easier with a couple trillion dollars, vs. a single individual vote once every couple of years.

[varjag]

He stopped at the point where Putin had already fled Moscow, and only because of the hostage situation with his family.

I'm not sure to which degree that would have deterred Elon.