Power Wars

Are you against people making a lot of money?

Really, if someone wants to earn a lot of money and for this purpose he becomes very rich by saying that everything is permissible, can you stand against this goal of that person?

After all, he has taken all the risks for his goal and he has succeeded.

Maybe he is really clever, he has done something so clever that people love what he has done and are willing to pay the price he has set. And he became very rich!

Okay, that kind of money is not easily earned through honest means. At least he must have gotten rich on the backs of laborers, by exploiting labor! 

How much fault can he have in this situation?

If there is a system that is favorable to the exploitation of labor and he has benefited from it, can you expect him to say no, I will not exploit labor?

In fact, he will do his best to perpetuate this system. 

I don't know, if someone else is going to do something similar to what he did, he may even think of passing laws to prevent him from doing it! 

For this purpose, perhaps he will also reach out to some cadres in the administration in order to make the necessary arrangements, perhaps by bribing them to make the legal arrangements he wants.

If there are cadres who do what he wants with his bribes, can you blame him for giving bribes?

I see, bribery is forbidden too! 

He has legal responsibility! 

But if nothing happens to him because of the order of things and it suits everyone, how much can he be to blame?

After all, his only goal is to make a lot of money and he can do it in one way or another. 

One way or another, he is the captain who runs his ship, he has found his way and he earns the money he wants. 

He distributes a certain part of the money he earns and maintains the order he has established.

In the meantime, he lives as he pleases. Maybe he buys yachts, maybe he buys floors. With his private plane, he can go wherever he wants, whenever he wants.

If he feels like it, he can have breakfast in one city watching the sunrise, sip wine in another city at noon, and in the evening in a completely different place, perhaps with a warm breeze on his face.

Can you object?

Maybe he even goes into politics. Because the power of money alone is not enough after a certain point. 

Can anyone have an objection to this?

I just said labor, I said exploitation of labor. If those who labor do not raise their voices against the exploitation of their labor, can he be to blame for this? 

After all, it is up to him to reap the rewards and he is doing it! 

As for the laborers, they can hardly afford a loaf of bread, but is there anything he can do about it?

Give him more money! Respect labor!

Why should he? Why should he do that?

After all, his goal is to make a lot of money and have power!

And he does it very well. 

If the laborers are not satisfied with their work, someone else who is satisfied comes and works. 

And he continues to exploit the new laborers as before! If this is the system, if those who want to work under these conditions never stop, can he be to blame?

Does he tell the laborers to work by force? He says these are the conditions and let anyone work. And people accept the conditions and work?

Where is his fault in this situation?

How is it his fault? Do you like what I wrote?

Is there anything in what I have written that you don't agree with?

Let's go a little bit further, let's move on from politics.

Because if you want to make a lot of money, there is no better suit of armor than politics!

I am not saying that all politicians are the same. 

I am saying that if your intention is to have money and power and you need a certain armor, there is no better armor than politics.  

So what I am saying is not wrong, what I mean is different!

Even in politics you don't call money money if you have to, but having political power is a much bigger motivation.

For example, how far can you go to keep power? 

Does polarizing society give you enough power?

What about giving the people around you what they want?

Does that also give you power?

If the people around you are like that, can you be blamed for it?

For example, if they beat you to silence those who speak against you, is it your fault?

Yes, when you have power you can do whatever you want. 

Even if what you are doing is wrong, if there is no one to stop you, is it your fault?

If there are no law enforcement agencies to arrest those who do things against the law, if there are no legal cadres who believe that the state is a rule of law, then what is your fault? 

You wanted power and you got it. If there is any blame, it is not yours, but those who knowingly gave you that power. But just because they give you power, what responsibility do you have for it?

And let's go even further.

Someone criticizes you and you don't like it. 

You say, "Look at me, do you know who I am? Don't make yourself have to deal with you.

You take that as an instruction and someone shoots a bullet into a building in broad daylight in the middle of the street to intimidate your critic? 

How can they do that?

Why not, if they know nothing will happen. And if the person they adore, the person who established this order, says something like that, don't make me deal with you, these are your better days. After all, it only takes your word for it. And someone will take it as their duty and shoot them.

I wonder who did it.

This or that, what difference does it make, when there is this degree of partisanship, this degree of polarization, someone will go and shoot the provincial headquarters of the rival party.

Because you have already established the order. 

Your supporters have done so many things and nothing has happened to those who have done these things, will something happen to the one who puts a bullet in the window of the building?

They should be praying that bullet wasn't aimed at the one who said something against you!

How long ago was it, not long ago, there was an attempt to lynch the leader of the main opposition, but did anything happen to those who did it? 

Didn't a citizen in that crowd punch the leader of the opposition in the face? 

What happened to the person who did that? 

And what happened to the one who shouted "burn the house" when they took shelter in that chaos? Did you find those responsible? When I say those responsible, I don't mean the common people, I mean those who organized this lynching attempt.

What do you have to do with those who did this and all this? Can't one get angry with someone? Can't one speak a little harshly? Of course one can. 

But? Yes, but! 

There are no buts or buts for someone who has reached that point by being honored!

You know how one of our elders used to say?

"I clearly state that even a sheep snatched by a wolf on the edge of the Tigris is under my responsibility."

If that is the case, I think it is clear to whom we should attribute that responsibility, if there is a responsibility to be attributed.

If there is no one who says no to this kind of behavior, if this is the way the system is set up, even if he is a politician, he speaks as he wants, of course.

In this system, if something is wrong, it is the people who are responsible, those who have the power to choose. Governments are temporary, it is the people who are permanent. The people, who have the power to decide who will govern them temporarily, show their power in elections. In democracies, the people are responsible for the rightness or wrongness of those they elect. Both those who vote and those who do not vote, acting with the mentality that they will not share this responsibility and avoiding responsibility! If you are going to make your choice, do it properly, and then don't complain about the system for nothing.

Love and respect to everyone from Moscow