Russian Oligarchs Whining Is The Funniest Thing I've Seen All Day

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Russian Oligarchs Whining Is The Funniest Thing I've Seen All Day
They do not mourn the loss of life in Ukraine, but they do whine about losing their personal housekeepers, chefs and drivers.
By Red Painter — March 27, 2022


Russian oligarchs are feeling the pain of sanctions and their pain and tears give me life. Financial Times has an unintentionally funny article that is meant to elicit sympathy but actually brings nothing but mockery and laughter.

It starts off with a story of grit and determination, of a desire to stay alive amid the falling bombs and missiles and shelling of civilians. Wait, no, it starts with a rich guy running around to every ATM machine he can to take cash out before his Russian accounts get frozen. He isn't hiding from military hit squads - he is trying to maintain his upper class lifestyle in London. This guy, Petr Aven, is worth $4.5 BILLION pounds (or just under $6 BILLION USD) used to be an academic, politician and businessman and now he says he does not know if he can pay any of his bills. Oh, he's also reportedly the head of Alfa Bank.

NO CAVIAR FOR YOU!

He whined to FT, "Our business is completely destroyed. Everything which we were building for 30 years is now completely ruined. And we have to somehow start a new life.”

I literally could not stop laughing when he said this: “Will l be allowed to have a cleaner, or a driver? I don’t drive a car . . . maybe my stepdaughter will drive. We don’t understand how to survive."

YOU DO NOT KNOW HOW TO SURVIVE WITHOUT DRIVING? How about surviving without a house, water, food, heat, knowing if your parents alive, a hospital if you need to give birth, basic medical care? You are whining about not having a DRIVER to chauffeur your spoiled, rich, Russian a$$ around?

In case there was even a modicum of pity for Poor Old Petr, FT reports that he was "pictured with President Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin alongside other oligarchs on the day that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine started last month, has been accused by the EU and UK of being close to the Russian president as a director of Alfa-Bank. Aven is a prominent Russian businessman and pro-Kremlin oligarch,” said the UK’s office of financial sanctions implementation.

So, this guy is right in line with Putin.

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https://crooksandliars.com/2022/03/russian-oligarchs-whining-funniest-thing

[Walleye]

1. Alfa bank. Now where have I heard of that?

[ToxMarz]

6. Maybe he can pawn the computer server he has in Trump Toower

for bus fare.

[L. Coyote]

13. Interesting how that misinformation lives on.

There never was an Alfa Bank server in Trump Tower.

[ToxMarz]

17. I'm not aware who has established that it is misinformation

There is indication there are ties (maybe a physical machine was not there). Call it poetic license.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/09/lawsuits-indictments-revive-trump-alfa-bank-story/

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-contested-afterlife-of-the-trump-alfa-bank-story/amp

[LetMyPeopleVote]

21. Rachel Vindman explains

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[2naSalit]

2. OMG!!

How will they ever survive and recover from mere inconvenience.

[LakeArenal]

3. Try surviving a bomber.

[dchill]

4. If only he could drive! He could use his Uber to Doordash.

Make money hand over fist.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

5. I will be double happy

When American oligarchs and oligarchs all over the world whine about losing their selfish lifestyles.
Truth is a lot of our tax dollars support the lifestyles of parasite oligarchs.
There is no reason to tolerate these over-rich assholes fucking with our lives,minds and well being..

[wnylib]

10. +1000.

[Frustratedlady]

7. And this jerk can look at the sweet faces of those Ukrainian children torn from their beds/homes,

and still cry about not having a driver or someone to clean up after them? Their yachts are being seized and their billion$ are locked up? OMG, is this the worst life has handed you? If this is the mindset of these rich bitches, we have a major problem on beyond what we already knew about. Spoiled, whiny, demanding adult imbeciles in high places.

The best way to make these brats finally grow up is to take their ill-gotten gains and use the money to rebuild Ukraine. Stage the yachts as temporary floating shelters for those who had to flee their flattened homes. No one else could afford to buy them anyway.

The game is over. Time to grow up you spoiled miscreants!

[Joinfortmill]

8. Hope the pain is just beginning.

[calimary]

9. You and me both, my friend!

[EYESORE 9001]

11. They should start keeping diaries. Like Anne Frank.

So that future generations can learn from all their suffering.

[IronLionZion]

12. There is a convoy of truckers with nothing better to do

they could drive him around. There's plenty of bleach leftover from the Trumpsters who drank it to cure COVID. That can help with cleaning.

[lastlib]

14. CEO of Alfa Bank? Double the sanctions on him!

[Demobrat]

15. We don't know how to survive.

Then learn. Learn how to drive. Rolls Royce got seized? Learn how to take the bus. Learn how to cook. Learn how to clean. It’s not that hard. Millions of people do it every day.

[tavernier]

16. I lost my home, my car, and my husband in 2017.

Hurricane Irma and heart attack.

I would attempt to rustle up some compassion for you, but I just can’t stop laughing,

I guess I’m a horrible person.

[Aussie105]

18. Welcome to the real world, Comrade!

You took the right colored pill.
Enjoy reality!
Hope it is painful for you!

The schadenfreude is thick in this thread! (Or is it 'karma strikes again'?)

[czarjak]

19. Nyet sympathy, comrade.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

20. Thoughts and prayers. #SAD

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