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It's not a pragmatic relationship, it's a long term oversight that literally strengthened dictatorships and long term hurt peace for everyone

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Does having Berezovsky, Chichvarkin, and Khodorkovsky in London hurt anyone? Or should we have let Russia extradite them back and take all their money?

> Does having [...] Chichvarkin [...] in London hurt anyone?

Dirty bad evil russian money was invested into wine, driving up prices?

Well for one if you couldn't get a nice western lifestyle for yourself and kids out of your blood money then you might not have a reason to kill and steal to get it

Why do you believe that this has strengthened dictatorship? The obvious conclusion is exactly the opposite, moving money out of dictatorships to the UK weakens dictatorships and strengthens the UK.

Read the book. It promotes theft, murder and oppression because that's mostly the source of that money. What use is this money otherwise? To buy Russian made cars and computers?

And if your henchmen can't get toys and flats for themselves and their kids then you may be left without any henchmen. If really no bad money was accepted in the west then dictators' houses of cards fall apart quickly.

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