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Record asset seizure: Authorities confiscated $7.6 billion in holdings tied to Vadim Moshkovich, the largest nationalization in recent years.

Part of wider campaign: The Kremlin has transferred an estimated $89.7 billion in private assets to state control since the Ukraine war began.

Elite on alert: Billionaires are showing loyalty to avoid similar fates, with some making large voluntary contributions to the state budget.

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[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 112 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Putin is draining the Russian federation of money and workers, destroying the Russian empire from within, so he can pursue his personal interests of expanding the Russian Empire.

Once some people actually considered this man smart, but in reality he is a one trick pony, and the trick is disinformation, problem is that disinformation is not a strategy, it is at best a tactic, and tactics only have so many uses before they don't work anymore.

[–] inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Once some people actually considered this man smart, but in reality he is a one trick pony

You fool! Comrade Pony has many tricks!

begins riffling through desk looking for a gun.

[–] Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

looking for a window.

[–] jestho@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Agree and upvoted, but I just wanted to pedantically brag about the mnemonic I learned today:

Disinformation = Dishonest, Deceptive

Misinformation = didn't have a good one for this...

[–] OhNoMoreLemmy@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Misinformation = might be mistake

[–] yakko@feddit.uk 3 points 1 week ago

What would antidisinformationtarianism be? Incorrect pedantry?

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Ah yes of course, it was a slip-up, because in my language we use the word misinformation in the meaning of disinformation.
I have corrected the post.

[–] towerful@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago

Misinformation = mistakes?

So disinformation leads to misinformation?

[–] Lemming6969@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Unless the money is being paid to other nations, they are just doing what we should all do, nationalize billionaires and pay for things. It liquifies the economy.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Absolutely tax the billionaires, problem is that Putin is drawing money out of Russian companies, and many smaller companies are going bankrupt.
And the Russian companies don't have money to maintain production and much less to expand it.
The money is not pulled out for anything constructive, they are pulled out to finance his stupid war that is destroying Russia.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

his propaganda machine is still fully funded, as is funding right wing governments all over the world.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 days ago

Funny if some Ukrainian drones take out a few troll farms.