The guy is giving away £3 billion+ to charity and writing off a £1.5 billion loan, and yet the whole thread is looking for holes in the short statement.
Nice gesture I say as he didn’t start the war.
Nice gesture I say as he didn’t start the war.
http://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/chelsea-owner-ad...
It's hilarious that people are buying his PR transformation into some kind of philanthropist. Guy was and is rotten to the core.
>he's got 7 billion and change left
So, I don't get you point, honestly.
He's got 7 billion left. That tells me he did not in any way shape or form bleed. He suffered nothing. Hence, no sacrifice was made. He still can live prosperously until forever.
At this point anybody close to Putin might have a presumption of guilt. It's not good to support decades of growing autocracy, benefit from it and when it started to crumble in agony, step aside and say "I didn't do this last step".
It is almost as if the Western democracies and companies didn't enrich the Russian government by purchasing energy from them...
How would you distinguish witch hunt from a legitimate action?
Diplomacy is the need of the hour. The US/NATO really botched this, or purposefully enraged Russia, for avoidable reasons. Ukraine is facing the brunt, just like Syria, Palestine, Iraq, and Yemen continue to. The warfare (both on-ground and the economic one) is so destructive that I fail to understand people who prefer it, at all, over any number of available compromises.
I have lived through war, sanctions, and rioting all under the pretense of freedom, nationalism, pride, religion, democracy, righteousness and what not, and I don't prefer it one bit.
Don't forget that all his wealth he obtained through stealing and corruption in the early days of russian robber capitalism (for a while he was a close associate of notorious Boris Berezovsky). Abramovitch is also rumored to be one of the putin's "purses" [0].
[0] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/21/is-abramovich-...
>It is not clear if his reference to "all victims" means just Ukrainians, or Russians as well.
I don't want to be cynical but this could be donated to "victims" in Russia. The Aggressor. Also the elephant in the room is why does he have 30 days to sell assets before sanctions. It should be frozen immediately.
> The American people are the ones who pay the taxes which fund the planes that bomb us in Afghanistan, the tanks that strike and destroy our homes in Palestine, the armies which occupy our lands in the Arabian Gulf, and the fleets which ensure the blockade of Iraq. These tax dollars are given to Israel for it to continue to attack us and penetrate our lands. So the American people are the ones who fund the attacks against us, and they are the ones who oversee the expenditure of these monies in the way they wish, through their elected candidates.
Blaming ordinary people of Russian for the actions of the Putin regime is the same.