para bellum
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Yep and that is always an acceptable outcome for the haves. LA, San Fran, Portland, Seattle...What they will get is a 3rd world society of haves and have-nots
The extreme example is the Oligarch's fleet. That includes the tech oligarchs like Bezos whose new yacht is so large they have to dismantle a historical bridge in Rotterdam just to get the damn thing out...
That's another thing I have been wondering about wrt this war. I don't think kleptocrats stop being kleptocrats just because there is a war on. Putin has to be under tremendous pressure by now.