Tuukka R

We’ll see how that will go in the States. I just read a text about why there are so few pickpockets in USA, and someone mentioned that during the Paris Olympics people had tried pickpocketing spectators from USA, and got so frequently immediately beaten up by spontaneously formed mobs of Americans that the French police had to start actively intervening on the side of the pickpockets O.o

Not everyone on this planet is like the Chinese and Russians. But, we are about to see.

Might be a cultural difference.

A Finn would be too scared not to react under the contemporary Russian circumstances. They’d work with the motto “I’m basically dead anyway, so this way I at least bear a chance to maybe survive.”

Can someone explain why the inner circle doesn’t take this as a warning sign that Putin is dangerous and must be liquidated as soon as possible?

They will all get killed (or “persuaded to suicide”) one after another if they don’t end the madman. Appeasing Putin will bring you nothing good in the longer term.

Assuming the fine isn’t progressive, of course.

Over here in Finland fines for any but the minor offences are defined in percents of income, not in fixed sums of money. There have been cases of traffic fines of several hundreds of thousands for going 30 km/h over the speed limit. That makes them a punishment for very richest people as well, not only for the lower class.