He still own a grand golf courses and few resorts and what not. He can afford a private jet. All these shows that many of his businesses may have gone bankrupt but he has wealth to live an extravaganza life. Has a beautiful model wife who is 24 years younger to him (which only money can buy)!!
But by paying $642 millions+ yearly US is one of the country that is funding Russia to continue its war besides European nations.
And surprisingly US is also funding Ukraine to continue fighting with Russia.
Europe probably buys more gas from Russia than the US does uranium & plutonium
According to the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA), which tracks physical flows of fossil fuels, the EU spent 1.15bn euros ($1.35bn) on Russian fossil fuels in August.
PER MONTH !
Absolutely dwarfs whatever the US is spending
Russia would keel over dead if Europe could get off Russian fossil fuels
And to some extent Europe is
In 2021, Russia supplied the EU with 45 percent of its gas and 27 percent of its oil. By 2024, these values dropped to 19 percent and 3 percent, respectively.
As I explained above maybe look at how he got it. By your definition every Mob boss and Dictator is a successful business man …
Nope. I have an absolutely gorgeous wife who could easily have been a supermodel were she inclined that way (but instead went into Science and became a world-class Biological Technician), is 15 years younger than me (she was 21 and I 36 when we met, and I didn’t want to get involved as I thought the age difference too large, but we just clicked), and has a LOT more money than I do. When she came to the village I grew up in people stared a lot and assumed she must be Russian because OBVIOUSLY she must be a mail-order bride. On first meeting her everyone (including old school friends) asks me the same stupid question: " How did YOU get a woman like THAT?!?" … and while I secretly think “Because I would never ask such a stupid question!” my answer is always “Well, I married her for her money, and she obviously married me for my good looks …” (you get the joke if you ever saw me. Hint: not even my mother ever called me handsome).
Since University I always had the most gorgeous women around me and was asked several times by guys “How do you DO it???”. There is no secret, it is very simple. I have NEVER hit on a woman. I simply talk to them because I find them interesting and want to get to know them, NOT because I want a girlfriend or worse a trophy wife. The desperation of guys is seriously off-putting, and the lame chat up lines that guys use are just embarrassing. Being seen NOT as a sex object but as a woman makes the World of difference. I’m also brutally honest with them, often telling them things that they don’t like to hear - but usually I’m right, and several had cancelled the friendship at some point just to find out that I had been spot on. But I always think you are able to learn from your mistakes and so everyone deserves a second chance, and as a result I’m still friends with most of them after 30-40 years (and god-father to one’s daughter), and they trust me implicitly because they KNOW I’m even willing to risk the friendship rather than compromise my values. I know three of them regret not having tried a relationship with me when they had the chance (there really is nothing that we can’t talk about, including abuse some suffered), but as everyone knows my attitude of “Any relationship - including friendships - is based on Love, Trust, and Respect”, and that “Friends don’t get friends into trouble” and therefore find affairs totally lacking in respect in every way (total sell-out of your alleged values), you can imagine that none of us wants to risk the friendship by being stupid. One tried (I might be a bit slow to notice but if someone puts her hand inside my underpants then even I can’t misunderstand the situation) and as she was the partner of an old school friend she pretty much instantly killed our friendship. I’m not a prude, and if had both been single then no problem - but THIS is simply not on.
Still, most of their boyfriends / partners / husbands get quite insecure when I’m around and try to over-compensate. They just don’t know what to make of me … which tells me a LOT about them …
I take a long-term close friendship over a bit of fun every day of the week, and a friendship is a good base to develop into something more … like with my wife, and we have been together for 25 years now, still going strong, laughing a lot (mostly about me, but I like making my wife laugh, and a self-deprecating sense of humour and not taking yourself too seriously helps a LOT).
