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You know how musk got to his position by being rich? Putin got to his position by being born into upper politicial class and getting a cushy kgb job in the soviet era
Then he won an election by promising to give his new oligarch friends a lot of stuff for their sponsoring of his campaign.
I don't know enough about 2000s Russian politics to contest that statement, but his destabilization of Europe and takeover of America don't seem like things you can do by just being rich.
Buy bots to spread all the anti-establishement narratives? Spread misinformation of all kinds just to see what sticks? It's not really a 5d chess move. It's just throwing stuff at a wall and seeing what sticks. Even getting lucky with it.
In that case why isn't everyone else as successful? I doubt Iran or China lack the funds but I don't see Trump swearing fealty to Xi Jinping.
Yet.
What time is it?
Because putin inherited the kgb machinery that he helped to build, which was explicitly designed to undermine any non-russian power base globally.