Originally Posted by
pete376403
The "west" has been perfectly happy to let the Olis have their money and spend it on football clubs, yachts, etc. Probably turning a blind eye as to how they got the money, but, as long as they want to keep it in "our"banks, its all good. And it's not like the Olis have had it forever, it's only since the Gorbachev and Yeltsin that the Russian state assets were privatized. A short enough time frame that they can remember what it was like not to be gazillionaires. and thus would prefer not to go back to that time.
The British government are reluctant to seize Russian assets because large amounts of Russian cash funded the Tory party and the Brexit campagn in recent times.
Boris even gave a Russian oligarch a seat in the House of Lords.
Similarly some Republican politicians in the US have received millions from oligarchs.
There is a grey blur, and a green blur. I try to stay on the grey one. - Joey Dunlop
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