On Oligarchs and Ironies.

It appears the oligarchs of Ukraine and Russia are suffering disastrous side effects from the war. Many of the Ukrainian mega-rich are having their fortunes decimated by the damage inflicted by the conflict, but the Russian oligarchs are suffering a different fate. They’ve developed the habit of turning up dead in suspicious circumstances.

What’s odd is that Mr Zelensky is not in favour of oligarchs, but it can hardly be he who is stripping them of their wealth. I always had the impression, however, that Mr Putin was hand in glove with ultra-wealthy Russians, but I also have the impression that Mr Putin is behind everything nasty that happens in Russia. So is all this a mirage?

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On an unrelated note, I read today that the Palestinians are tearing their hair out with rage over the actions of a leading light of the new ultra-right wing government in Israel. It seems he has been tramping contemptuously over ground which the Muslim Palestinians hold sacred.

So let’s ask a question here: what was the biggest, most zealous right wing organisation the world has known over the past few centuries? Why, the German Nazi Party of course. And the Israelis are not supposed to be terribly keen on Nazis, are they? Ironic, isn’t it? And is this further evidence that when the chips are down, whether they be held by the far right or the far left, it all distils to the bigotry of psychopathic, power-obsessed human beings?