• Sanctus@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    96
    arrow-down
    3
    ·
    8 days ago

    I hope all American Oligarchs watch every window victim with wide eyes. This is the future you are funding with Trump.

  • Anas@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    49
    ·
    8 days ago

    I feel like we all knew this was not the onion. The onion would be a Russian oligarch dying in any different manner.

  • Troy@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    48
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    8 days ago

    It’s barely even funny at this point.

    Although I’d quibble about Newsweek defining this guy as an oligarch. He was vice president at a company that was disbanded due the company president’s opposition to Putin. It’s very possible this guy is just a former executive that refused to bend or hand over some dirt or something. It doesn’t appear he fits the definition of oligarch at all.

    Unless we’re just using the word to refer to all Russians above peasant.

  • Miles O'Brien@startrek.website
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    44
    ·
    8 days ago

    I always see people commenting on stories like this with things like “how does anyone actually believe that/think anyone will believe that?”

    Well, that’s exactly the point. It’s not about the death being convincingly accidental. It’s very much about sending a message to others.

    You don’t eliminate the competition and agitators with the exact same method of execution for 30+ years (with a few false-flag apartment bombings thrown in for good measure) and expect to keep things covert.

    The only way they could make it more obvious is the “he hogtied himself, ate a cyanide capsule, jumped out the window and shot himself twice in the back of the head on the way down” trope.

      • chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        21
        ·
        8 days ago

        Putin has been in power for 25 years. He arguably has more enemies than anyone else on the planet. I’d say the deterrent factor is pretty strong with this one.

        It’s not perfect though. When you’re destroying your own country with the most disastrous war in living memory then you need stronger deterrents.

      • Miles O'Brien@startrek.website
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        6
        ·
        8 days ago

        As chonglibloodsport said, it’s a numbers game.

        When you have enough enemies, and keep making more, you’re going to keep getting people who have had enough and don’t care about the risk.

        If it weren’t for the “Russian suicide”, putin would have been black bagged long ago by someone who WOULD.

    • Flax@feddit.uk
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      7 days ago

      It’s the same with the vote rigging being caught on camera. It’s deliberately careless. “I’ve rigged the vote, so don’t even try”