20 Mar 2023 10:16 am
YOUR AMERICAN/WESTERN MEDIA SOURCES ARE INCORRECT. OLIGARCHS DID NOT MAKE PUTIN.Vegas » 19 Mar 2023, 9:31 pm » wrote: ↑ This is why I am so distrustful of all media outlets. I have read, from what I thought to be reliable sources, that the oligarchs made Putin. He is just a face for their citizens, and the world, to see. Like the US, the president is a puppet of big banks and other lobbyists. Likewise, Putin is the guy that takes orders from their billionaires. Everything I have read has pointed to Putin being the puppet.
PUTIN MOVING UP THE POLITICAL LADDER EVENTUALLY BECAME ONE OF THREE DEPUTY PRIME MINISTERS AFTER A HUMILIATING DEFEAT OF RUSSIAN SOLDIERS IN THE FIRST CHECHEN WAR. HE ASKED THE MILITARY TO GIVE HIM FULL SUPPORT IN EXCHANGE FOR ALLOWING THEM TO AVENGE THEIR FALLEN BROTHERS. THE MOVE WAS BENEFICIAL TO HIS POLITICAL CAREER. HE GAINED FULL SUPPORT OF THE MILITARY WHILE EARNING ADMIRATION FROM THE PUBLIC. WHEN YELTSIN RESIGNED, PUTIN BECAME ACTING PRESIDENT LATER RUNNING IN THE COMING ELECTION. HE ACHIEVED NEARLY 60 PERCENT OF THE VOTE AND BECAME INCREASINGLY POPULAR DUE TO HIS LAW-AND-ORDER IMAGE AND RESOLVE TO THE SECOND CHECHEN WAR.
WHEN HE WAS ELECTED, HE HAD TO DEAL WITH OLIGARCHS HAVING AN UNCHALLENGED AUTHORITY OVER DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF RUSSIAN POLITICS AND SOCIETY. HE WAS GOING TO CONTROL THESE INDIVIDUALS AND CHANGE THE STATUS QUO. SOME OLIGARCHS WERE EITHER DRIVEN OUT OF BUSINESS OR FORCED TO LEAVE RUSSIA UNDER POLITICAL PRESSURE FROM THE GOVERNMENT. PUTIN ORDERED HIS OFFICIALS TO FIND LEGAL LIABILITIES IN THE BUSINESS ACTIVITIES OF THESE INDIVIDUALS. HE ALSO USED A GRAND BARGAINING AGREEMENT. THIS STRATEGY INVOLVES ALLOWING FIRST GENERATION OLIGARCHS TO KEEP THEIR BUSINESS IN EXCHANGE FOR STAYING OUT OF RUSSIAN POLITICAL AFFAIRS AND FOR SUPPORTING THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT. SIMILAR TO THE PREVIOUS STRATEGY, THOSE WHO REFUSED WERE THREATENED POLITICAL PERSECUTION USING AVAILABLE LEGAL TOOLS.