"Russia is a mafia state" - Dominic Cummings

[@Moped_Mike]

Same in Thailand, corruption is so bad there, my wife when she got US drivers license asked me “so when I get pulled over, how much money do I give the Police?”

[@jamahlrawls3520]

That's wild

[@makokx7063]

Same in China. I worked at a company in Japan and we had a factory in a couple locations in China and at budget meetings we'd literally have to factor in various bribes, particularly for customs.

[@Seth9809]

This problem exists in the US. Never travel with valuables that are easy to steal and lie never existed.

[@am5790]

lol corruption is everywhere including

[@1truthseeking8]

​@@Seth9809Civil Asset Forfeiture.

[@jabom99]

A Canadian oil company set up a subsidiary in Russia in the 90's. Same thing. They stole a 300 million dollar company.

[@miff227]

so about 100th of what New York steals every year

[@enuskolada6618]

Yikes. Around 94, I asked a Russian friend about buying some cheap residential real estate to rent and hold. He said to forget about it, that, with my not bring there, it would simply be occupied and resumed with no legal recourse. But an oil company? Yikes.

[@bozho777]

This was a transition period and Russia was just starting to get a taste of the market economy. Western companies were using this to their advantage, especially those in the energy sector and were going in as sharks for their prey, using the lawlessness to their advantage but screaming help as soon as it turned against them!

[@mike6888]

What the hell happened in history to turn this country into this?

[@Reece-u3f]

@@mike6888people will probably say communism but if disagree. I’d say it’s always been that way people are greedy always are , always have been and if in a situation that they can essentially take whatever they want or at least more than their fair share/ what they’re owed then they will. It’s inherently peoples nature. The big will always take what they want if they have an opportunity to do so. It definitely still happens today in western countries too. Think US American police taking cash before they submit the true amount to evidence or seizing your items only for them to “go missing” in evidence. It’s also the same at the very top, think Epstein or when the big orange man decided not to pay the polish workers on drumpf tower. It’s basically lord of the flies and always has been.

[@Calcepher]

Funny, the exact same thing happened to a relative of mine. Briefly visited Russia as a young teenager and liked it. Went to college to study business and Russian as in the mid 90s when Russia opened up there was a belief that there was a lot of money to made in this huge market. She moved there, stayed there for 6 months and came back. Has never been back to Russia and forgot all of her Russian. She said firstly it’s because she was treated very poorly as a woman in business settings (this was the 90s too so she wasn’t expecting todays standards just not to be sexually harassed consistently) and secondly every attempt at developing business relationships involved bringing other people into the equation to “provide support” which really just meant the mob taking a cut of anything and everything. She said she just realised she had completely misjudged the situation because of what she thought was the potential to make big money so she just chalked it down as a failure and got on with the rest of her life.

[@MackMateCom]

Yes it was very corrupted then until Putin came to power

[@Yanramich]

The 90s in the USA were nothing compared to the 90s in the former USSR...

[@Calcepher]

@@Yanramich We are from Western Europe not the US

[@lordpazo6784]

​@@Yanramich 90's and early 00's in ex soviet countries was diff level of survival💀

[@Yanramich]

@@Calcepher .... exactly?

[@thankyouforyourcompliance7386]

Studied with Russian. They were all about power play and getting rich by any means. Horrible.

[@benwilliams3539]

Same as westerners.

[@malikamasimova7631]

Don’t tell me people in the West are fluffy kittens.

[@Matt-vq8fg]

So... Capitalism...

[@benwilliams3539]

@Matt-vq8fg capitalism is fantastic.

[@Matt-vq8fg]

@benwilliams3539 Well, that's what's being described in the original comment.

[@Jermbot15]

Wait, Dominic Cummings didn't know what the hell he was doing? This is quite the revelation.

[@Somethingshouldgohere]

As per usual, at the expense of everyone else

[@purplemonkeydishwasher5269]

You wonder who took him under their wing. Hey Dom if you really want to make some money come work for the Russian government. Look after this buffoon Johnson for us make sure he does as he's told

[@Kuricang31]

Now you know why even Boris sacked him off. And Boris is just as cuckoo if not worse than Cummings

[@mark_sugar42]

DC was in Russia just after the fall of SU when he was 24. So yes, maybe he didn’t know.

[@DanRyan-v5y]

Now we find he was right to want to gut the British mafia establishment, even ttk goes on about making it more efficient. He was removed precisely because he wanted to do that. Boris set himself up to fail by allowing carrys establishment mates to run the show. It led to him being pushed out himself

[@blodstainer]

westerners learning about corruption

[@LyingJoosAreCancer]

It's the same groups of Cha..-badniks who run the West. Don't kid yourself.

[@dinhnguyen2110]

Corruption exists everywhere. Only, in the West, it is an aberration or outlier to some extent or another. In these countries (Russia) though, it's the majority.

[@TheZerosd]

​@@dinhnguyen2110the US is as bad as Russia lol I see no difference

[@dinhnguyen2110]

@@TheZerosd Lol, not even close. US corruption is little league compared to RuZZia.

[@michaelcoward1902]

Dominic Cummings is corruption manifested into a greasy leather bag.

[@Appachoppa112]

Ussr fell and the strong n powerful took what they wanted. Look at putin the mf been their leader since then 😂

[@Yanramich]

they literally show yeltsin in the video who made the whole offshore business a normality...

[@anthonycoon6955]

But putin took it to a whole other level of corruption ​@@Yanramich

[@reallifehack4790]

​@@Yanramichand gues what , Yeltsin chose Putin as his successor..same mentality, same oligarchy

[@Yanramich]

@reallifehack4790 however he has also proven to be a better successor than him and rectifying Yeltsin's failures. Does that mean Yeltsin was competent in choosing said successor? No. Did he pick him alone as prime minister based on his own interests only? Also no. I get that corruption is an inherent problem, however you can't deny that Putin has made much more progress in advancing Russia back onto the world stage at least diplomatically compared to the isolationist policy propagated by Yeltsin, not to mention economically (If you're going to talk about the western sanctions you also have to remember that the nascent domestic industry is slowly getting back on track as a side effect, especially heavy and the automobile industry which as far as i know had been mostly outsourcing parts and components from Europe)

[@IchDienn]

Yea, none of that 🌈 bs though…..and if theyre so weak and backwards Britain the modern superstate oughta just steamroll Russia….so this is just s big bs video….Brits destroy everything everywhere they go….and Im English 1OO%

[@Circlemaker24]

But Tucker Carlson said it’s amazing!!

[@athelstan927]

Best get over there and compare with Britain! Bare in mind Cummins is strange person!

[@blazergamer6425]

Basically he just saw a few good places in Moscow and from that perspective it is good just like how you can go to a few good places in Detroit and say Detroit is a good place until you actually go outside of those good areas

[@ABC-sc2ip]

You realize this guy was talking about Russia in the early 90s, after the fall of communism? Back then the country was crazy. A 100 years of the same government and economy fell overnight and Russians had no idea what was coming next.

[@dylanhadley7624]

Yeah clearly Russia has some sort of blackmail on Tucker to cause him to so suddenly and powerfully simp for Putin

[@MarcoBonechi]

Instead now they reversed to Barbarians invasions with pillage and rape ​@@ABC-sc2ip

[@AbdirahmanIdris-ku9xm]

And it makes them weaker. Less businesses means less investment and less jobs and money for citizens. No wonder America basically had global dominance for 30 years.

[@whyareyoustillnotstoned]

Именно так, на бытовом уровне русские выглядят "круто", однако когда дело доходит до перспектив и будущего, а также инвестиции в долгосрочную игру, происходит пиздец

[@neneklucubanget-pm9mp]

not russian but just philosophically asking Are man made to be slave? Slave of someone else, slave of the system, so much that man cannot live if they dont work or produce or invest in something monetary? Im not communist too, just thinking this statement is sad coming from someone with arabic name, in which arabic people are known for their strong family bond.

[@GoudenInkt]

​@@neneklucubanget-pm9mpcouldn't put it any better

[@AbdirahmanIdris-ku9xm]

@neneklucubanget-pm9mp kinda true but Russia was controlled by the mafia for a while in the 90s. It would have been better if they had followed American business at that time.

[@fiddlefordscatalog5443]

America is full of crooks just the same.

[@tomlebeau7921]

The second largest resident building, after Buckingham palace, is owned by a Russian. It’s HUGE and in the Center of London. Has a basement many, many floors below ground level. Crazy stuff. Look it up.

[@John-k5y3i]

What's the name

[@dagon2647]

​@@John-k5y3i Witanhurst. It had very interesting previous owners as well.

[@nyakwarObat]

You sound like you envious though. What's happening with Falklands nowadays btw?

[@basic5926]

@@nyakwarObat Way too obvious, bot.

[@The_Boomer_]

@@nyakwarObat you’re* if you’re gonna post some low effort bait in English atleast use proper grammar lol

[@disastrousduckling]

it's absolutely incredible how naive westerners can be regarding Russians mindset and goals.

[@peterh1353]

The lure of money is always strong.

[@NiSiochainGanSaoirse]

They're just as ignorant about islam and it's intentions.

[@87gn199]

This is from the 90s when the entire country collapsed... Yeah then Putin came and things improved.. those same guys that took the money out are salty they can't keep doing it.. hence laying bojo to keep zelensky fighting... Well you start to get the picture

[@thestig7603]

Exactly

[@paulgiesbrecht955]

Every single comment on here belives that Russia is the same place it was in the 90s 🤷

[@MarkEm]

You have such a unique collection of guests. All the other podcasts I listen to get the same guests on so thank you

[@CarlosMdz72]

True

[@5StarHeneral]

This is most of developing countries and third world countries actually. It's even worse when the govt is participants or enablers.

[@KolyaUrtz]

Russia isn't thirld world

[@12stem.b-obenita]

​@@KolyaUrtztry going in the east of Russia it feels 3rd world only thing they have it good is their railways

[@KolyaUrtz]

@12stem.b-obenita I'm Russian, I can confirm that to be false

[@5StarHeneral]

​@@KolyaUrtzI said developing country.. guy is talking about the mid 90s since the soviet collapsed. So was China. That is not far from the truth. Of course it's not Cuba or even a more developed North Korea today.

[@markusklyver6277]

Russia is literally second world

[@Capt.DanInJapan]

"You always learn a lot from total failures." Probably the only statement i could ever trust from this wretched snake.

[@nimenialturo]

Russian mafia approves your comment

[@oneofyus3799]

Nope, it’s still the same here. Very hard to manage medium-large size business. IT goes well cause police, gov and the mob don’t have a clue how it works, anything else is run by gov official’s proxies or police

[@bridgecross]

It's never worth doing business in a country without an independent legal system. Contracts between businesses are meaningless without enforcement from courts and judges who actually care about upholding the law. Without that it's just handshakes.

[@GeraldBeagan-ee6se]

It’s still like that today…..government/mafia dude shows up at your successful Russian business and tells your under arrest for some fraud charge and as you go to prison he assumes ownership of the cash cow business

[@ps-qj5wl]

politicians in india do the same thing. plus so manybribes involved when people see you are making money

[@AutonomousPlayground]

bro my best friend had a successful electronics business for years and supplied bigger contracts (fifa etc) than the state owned company. They arrested him for espionage and smuggling and ruined the family's life, saying he supplied electronics to Ukraine (they faked photos of this). He finally had the charges dropped after the business was smoked and he'd been in jail with westerners (that US marine etc) for a few years.

[@Theworldaccordingtomickey]

Source - trust me bro.

[@chimmaster]

@@TheworldaccordingtomickeyVK, Euroset were overtaken by the ruskie government. The founders were forced to sell their business. There are a lot of cases when FSB overtakes successful businesses in Russia.

[@4evertrue830]

I doubt if that is still happening today in Russia. If it is, the focus should be on the company and what negative activity the management itself must have done to deserve such attention not the russian govt or, its agencies.

[@billpugh58]

Russia is shite, believe me. been there

[@Funkteon]

Don't tell that to the Trump-loving passport bros who think they can snag a hot Russian traditional wife, they'll comment reply all day long defending the joint.

[@leonidjoseph5483]

Canda is one of the shittiest

[@aocg1914]

I saw a videos of a journalist, asking common people how they spend their money.. They have it way worse than here in mexico, a lot of smooth brains here also think russia is like a paradise..

[@jormungandr4690]

That guy is form UK dude. Atleast he wont get attacked in Russia by migrants.

[@ВладиславК-щ4в]

lol move 3 fucking miles from London and britain is way shittier believe me, been there

[@rexleroux7220]

That's why Russia, Brazil, India and South Africa is in a alliance. They understand each other so well😂edit: forgot about China, can't leave out the big boys

[@dabome4001]

Oh no, freedom loving 2nd amendment american eagle being judgemental on youtube? 😂😂😂

[@adisoncardoso]

are*. and say what you mean, instead of implying a mystery opinion.

[@roguetrader33]

all corrupt

[@georgewashington7551]

Remember that together they can shake up everything though

[@leaveme3559]

Saying it as if America is any different remember the banks went Scot free post 2008 crash....seriously people with glads houses

[@Dan_dan281]

For context this man is talking about the time right after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Not current day Russia.

[@megawutt]

Yeah, but he's a scumbag trying to transplant his experience of the 90s to Russia of today.

[@LegendaryCollektor]

No difference

[@ogposer]

Today it's the same but more carefully hidden

[@guguigugu]

@@ogposer there was never a free market or rule of law in russia. there is only "getting by" with connections.

[@czwarty7878]

Today it's even worse. The mafia-like system cemented and seeped into every aspect of life. There is zero hope for Russia, they're a failed state

[@IlyaNoneofyabusiness]

The 90s were wild

[@vultureculture7707]

My grandpa was in Russia before the iron curtsin fell, for wprk, and they actually set up fake storefronts for tourists. You coukdnt actually go in there and buy things. If you needed a pair of shoes, there was no guarantee you'd get the style and size of shoes you needed. His translater literally disappeared after telling him that and he was assigned a new translator. 17 years later he went back, and it hadn't changed much. He hos the nail on the head, westerners go there thinking its a normal country, but it isn't, even today.

[@МихаилНаумов-ч3ъ]

Do not say nonsense, today russia is a ordinary 2nd world country with market economy, we have almost everything, there are no shortages

[@tantuce]

​@@МихаилНаумов-ч3ъ and the broken sewage pipes, sending fountain of feces and piss water in the air and flooding towns? Happens every year. You lack quality. You may have full shelves of everything in shops, but you lack quality in everything. Ведь и так сойдёт.

[@tantuce]

​@@МихаилНаумов-ч3ъ how would you describe the soderzhanka phenomenon? What does it say about the society? And the traffic rules re bigger car and smaller car?

[@МихаилНаумов-ч3ъ]

@@tantuce if you mean golddiggers - yes, we have them, like almost every western country that lost norms of societal moral

[@МихаилНаумов-ч3ъ]

@@tantuce i didn't understand the last question)

[@alexeishayya-shirokov3603]

The situation he's describing was commonplace in the 1990s. I.E. over 30 years ago. A lot has changed since, and not just in Russia.

[@MusingsOAM]

Of course he misunderstood. This was before he went to Specsavers.

[@darrenmurray861]

Good job that he took a drive, with his children in the car, to test his eyesight first though!

[@Legotecho2]

Man is still living in the 90s...

[@LegendaryCollektor]

This is Russia

[@Legotecho2]

@LegendaryCollektor you visited much?

[@dannydanny2789]

Yeah, dude has been to Russia right after the Soviet Union collapsed and says that like it's the same now as it's been 30 years ago

[@lemix_6477]

​@@LegendaryCollektorThis is not Russia. Russia has long been different from before.

[@AnotherAustin-z7b]

Telling a story from the past = living in the past? This is how I know you're being disingenuous and are probably being paid to say this. Want a recent example? They seized Google and charged them over a quadrillion dollars and keep raising the fine, because their state propaganda media outlet got blocked on KZbin. So they are still like this, grow up and just be a freaking adult, stand up to corruption and be freaking honest. Russia could be the world leader if they just did things the honest way, corruption is a sickness that destroys things from the inside out. It's pathetic. Anyone looking at our planet objectively would be horrified and disgusted.

[@mozogao]

Same with India. Never try anything there.

[@malikamasimova7631]

Why would India and Russia allow westerners to come to their countries? Why westerners have this mentality of a colonizer they everybody owes them?

[@nimrodbong8173]

India is way less corrupt

[@SunnyKumar-nn5wm]

Why

[@mozogao]

@ Are you high? You can’t even run a simple business there without payouts to politicians, panchayat, police, etc etc. Ever try? I have. It was torture. Never again.

[@nimrodbong8173]

@@mozogao depends on the state. India is way less centralized than Russia. Also panchayat don't exist in cities.

[@thl205]

And yet this guy handed Putin a gift with Brexit, he had experience of Russia’s domestic shenanigans but was very naive about their foreign policy ambitions 🤷‍♂️

[@catmonarchist8920]

Tory Brexit Britain was way harder on Russia than the EU countries trying to appease until the last minute

[@mikekelly5869]

You're missing the point. Putin wants to break up the EU in order to weaken Europe. ​@@catmonarchist8920

[@zachmalone428]

​@catmonarchist8920 they may be harder sanction wise but with brexit, signaling to Russia that an alliance that was against him was showing signs of breaking up and possibly making less resistance for putin to do whatever he wants. Big question in American politics where there's a huge call for a pre ww2 isolationist policy and withdrawing a lot of money and support from Nato with could fall into putins lap of having carte Blanche to do whatever. If his army was worth a damn who knows where they'd go next if they showed out like he planned and already conquered ukraine.

[@yurivii]

You did brexit to yourselves. Stop blaming Russians for the political decisions you freely made as a community. I'm sorry you're a loser.

[@RetroBeam-k8y]

Bro ive been saying Russia is like 1920s -1950s gangland America for a loooooong time lol 😂

[@10Wk3y84R]

It's far worse. They have 21st century technology that the Mafia state uses to keep people in line, as well as interfering with global politics

[@iz5808]

I'd say worse, the gangs thrived through some specific connections but it wasn't systematic, and there was a strong opposition to their activity from federal and local powers. In Russia it's in the hand of the state, a very unforgiving and oppressive police system, but quite effectice at controlling their population

[@georgyekimov4577]

Not really it's the wrong comparison

[@Schizohandlers]

Imagine if al capone became the president. This is russia since the start of the soviet union, Stalin was a bank robber.

[@femboyshitposter676]

This was the 90's lawless Russia not modern day Russia

[@sho-m-er5194]

Didnt stop this fella from operating in their interests lol

[@abatesnz]

Because he helped liberate us from the EUSSR?

[@sho-m-er5194]

@@abatesnz how has leaving the single market gone for you guys then? Your economy has stagnated so much that even when you had a 17% corporate tax rate for 5 years, companies were still trying their best to abandon ship

[@danzoom]

​@@abatesnz comparing EU to USSR is ridiculous

[@Lemonz1989]

Being from a Nordic country, this is incomprehensible to me. I have never seen or heard of anyone remotely close to me giving or receiving bribes. I’ve also never heard of anyone soliciting bribes. However, I know of a guy who was fired with immediate effect after stealing a coworker’s lunch from their shared fridge.

[@larsrons7937]

Denmark here. I second every word you said (except I didn't encounter the lunch story). I never encountered any attempt of bribery here.

[@santostv.]

Good for you Nordics/Scandinavians, where the biggest corruption scandal is probably someone using the company card to pay for lunch unauthorized 😂. In my country corruption scandals are just another day in a banana republica for Western European standards, day to day theres no bribery but who you know is quite important to get things rolling even without nothing exchange,on high level politicians will sell themselves imo for quite cheap to their boys a lot have changed but in some ways it stayed the same is weird to explain, only if you guys didn’t have quite difficult languages.

[@larsrons7937]

@@santostv. You are spot on. When it happens, that's the level, and often no with intent but just acting without thinking (which isn't anymore legal). Our societies are very much built on mutual trust which we find natural. A good example is our "trustshops" (the best word I can find), locals selling own products along the road in the countryside. On a table or such are the produce, and a money box with small change. The shops is completely unattended. We can trust eachothers to the extend that both potatoes (or whatever) and the money stays untouched unless a bypasser buys something and naturally pays for it. We very rarely experience theft from these unattended raodside shops.

[@A_friend_of_Aristotle]

You live in a civilized country. Russia is a perpetual crime spree.

[@larsrons7937]

@ _"...And then it got worse."_ (The never ending story of russia)

[@bytefu]

"Russia is a mafia state and we helped it become one". That title wouldn't get as much clicks?

[@chillyroom8159]

Exactly,they blame Russia for what it has become after targeting it so much since the end of the world war II until now and going on,all of russia's strict laws in its policies internal or external and it's militaristic nature and poverty and corruption is a mere adaptation and result from how much russia was being targeted in invasions,this has historical roots since the Mongolian invasion,and since russia is continuously on the survivalist state of producing more. People but mid quality of life for each one (depending on the.person too they can be happy if they work on it) and it caused poverty which caused these mafias to happen Any mafia militia and guerillias warfare tell a gap of ideology of power that is mostly caused by external causes, take the many militias of iraq,shia or sunni they resulted from a gap of power saferty and ideology and also religiously for these groups When will westerns ever realize that other people and other counties are just like them,and if thier countries went through what russia have gone through it'd be the same,west makes problems then suprised when they become bigger and clear.

[@stanpines9011]

This is child logic. "But he did it first" doesn't justify your bad actions.

[@bytefu]

​@@stanpines9011 Neither does pretending that West did nothing and USSR just fell apart on its own. Just admit it for a change, all I'm asking. All I hear from Westerners, especially from USA, is how cool they are and how fucked is Russia, without any context.

[@chillyroom8159]

@stanpines9011 it's not about who did it first,it's about the fact the west exploited Russia into a mafia state then they just tell half the story that Russia is a mafia state as if the reasons is in Thier genes

[@letsseegames4382]

​@@chillyroom8159Dude. Invasions of Russia started LONG before Mongolian empire

[@joeverna5459]

Wow, this guy is clueless. First wanting to start an airline and second doing it in Russia.

[@gregmayo7836]

Yes he was clueless, as were so many others! The place became like a modern gangster "wild west". Outsiders were caught unawares thinking they could make $$ while bringing prosperity. I lived in Tokyo then and heard multiple stories from Japanese entrepreneurs trying to open businesses, I heard about intimation and murders 😢 first hand- or should that be second hand. GM.

[@Nik-Art]

Going to Moscow/Petersburg in the 90s is like going to Chicago in the 60s and calling all of America a mafia state

[@eduardorodriguezperez9175]

You're seriously defending them. Found one.

[@plunderpunk2]

Russia is one city.

[@Nik-Art]

@@eduardorodriguezperez9175Who am I defending? 90s Russia?

[@Hungabrigoo]

​@@eduardorodriguezperez9175 Afraid of free thinking, are we?

[@crumpets1410]

@@eduardorodriguezperez9175 Your Spanish name suggests to me that you’ve never experienced a clean and safe city, unlike cities in Russia. You have been fooled by the anti Russian propaganda.

[@Hacienda_27]

This guy willingly just underestimated Russians and was once somehow the closest advisor to our PM Only In Britain

[@marlon_88]

They learned from the best.

[@dg-productions]

Bro was in on it 100%

[@thecheck4879]

This also happen to Elon when started a business in china.

[@arlingtonbutler9511]

So he stayed and opened a huge factory there

[@R1chmond123]

@@arlingtonbutler9511the Chinese government clearly have him by the balls too.

[@robertagren9360]

Technically he doesn't care if the place burns up

[@CONSTANTINE-8888]

What exactly happened to Elon in China?

[@blazergamer6425]

It's actually much easier for Western companies to open up stuff in China then even Russian people to set up businesses in Russia lol

[@AllofJamesSorensen]

I think if anything, this person understands even less now, he started his airline at a time where the economy had collapsed, and people were the most desperate for money that they had ever been

[@tarikshenzhen7463]

that was the 90s, when the US and the West still liked Russia, before Putin

[@letsseegames4382]

"Liked"? Dude, they're destroyed it. But someone call it "opened a golden chest"

[@SHLAVMEISTER]

Liked??? Lol they just didnt care for it because it was so weak, disheveled and had no global power due to internal conflicts, after the Soviet collapse. If they liked Russia NATO would've disbanded in the 90s.

[@LegendaryCollektor]

Russia has never lost its imperial ambition. Only when dreams of empire die and Russia accepts its lesser status will it be safw

[@tarikshenzhen7463]

@@letsseegames4382 exactly, that's why it was 'liked' by the West.

[@megawutt]

Let me get this straight: the guy goes to Russia, expecting to participate in the looting of the 90s. Gets scammed instead. Now 30 years later continues howling and hurling insults towards Russia. Sorry but no sorry.

[@rafalpilat4229]

By "looting" you mean acctually trying to create businesses to make the country better

[@Barad-Dur_IsACapitalOfMordor]

⁠@@rafalpilat4229A Brit starting a business in foreign country to make a life easier for the locals. Happens all the time

[@Hungabrigoo]

​@@rafalpilat4229 Yeah the English are famous for going to other countries and making them "better" 😂.

[@Hungabrigoo]

​@@rafalpilat4229 Oh yeah, the English are famous for going to other countries and making them "better" 😂

[@Hungabrigoo]

​@@rafalpilat4229 Nah, he was correct with looting.

[@jcrosenkreuz5213]

The privatization of the 90s was so horribly mismanaged. All of the state industries fell into the hands of government employees and their friends. It would have been better if the assets had been auctioned off to foreign multinationals, with the proceeds going to a sovereign wealth fund of foreign stocks and bonds to salvage the pension and education systems.

[@olliefoxx7165]

That's insane. Sell your nations assets off to foreigners? Look at Ukraine. It's owned mostly by rich Western oligarchs and corrupt Ukrainian govt officials.

[@disastrousduckling]

just imagine how badly Russian pride would be hurt if someone tried to propose this on a national scale 😂

[@retardinho5048]

@@disastrousducklingProbably as much as when they begged good ol Merica for food, when they were starving to death. So, not so much.

[@NATANOJ1]

yeah give everything to the little hat people, its better than this, the westerners are jealous that they can't get any of the cake. let the maffia have it, at least its russian

[@chrisfreebairn870]

State assets, the assets of the ppl, worth billions, privatised for cents on the dollar, plus heaps of western money that went in to help; the world was so pleased that Russia might finally stop being a pita. The West got burned then kind of ignored Russia as a lost cause, pivoted to Asia; but Russia was resentful & got more so as it felt ignored, then started shit worldwide to piss America off; still doing that, like a rejected 15 year old.

[@ibrahimagadjukic7627]

The very same situation in Serbia, very the same…

[@smokeybirdman]

Is it the orthodox Church?

[@ibrahimagadjukic7627]

@@smokeybirdman yes

[@NS-pp5hf]

​@@ibrahimagadjukic7627 Coming from a muslim called ibrhaim im not surprised. The orthodox church ist the best thing that exists in the current world.

[@gdup1728]

@@NS-pp5hf lol. tell me whats so good about the Orthodox Church??

[@ilijavujicic232]

​@@gdup1728It's not corrupt like Catholic curch who sell indulgences or Islam where woman are abused

[@satyakisil9711]

Yeltsin Russia was truly the wild east. Completely different from today.

[@10anto82]

Russia has not changed,in yeltsin era there were lots of oligarchs now there are fewer because Putin and his cronies wiped them out to get the whole cake.

[@mongol100mongol3]

😂😂😂 only change is people in power changed

[@maxiona714]

​@@mongol100mongol3 not even that lol, the current russian president is literally a "former" KGB agent

[@maxhill9254]

Nope, successful businesses are still extorted or stolen by the Mob which is connected to the Russian state. The Russian Mob and the Russian state is basically the same thing. Have you seen Putins Palace?

[@caroline4323]

Try starting something there. It IS a mafia state. It only resembles a normal state.

[@AW-lq9bf]

He learned how to be corrupt in Russia is what he is saying

[@bellathewonderdog4302]

you come up with stuff two to three years after the rest of us. you're a history chanel

[@TheRealHarrypm]

Open corruption is just political honesty, If you're not a shareholder, you don't have a say in things. So utterly simple a child could figure it out.

[@therealallpro]

This is exactly what I would suspect from Russia 😂

[@nyakwarObat]

Yh but is your country saintly? Pot kettle 🙄

[@thedoer]

Same thing happening with China now.

[@jimwu9121]

No, China was and is the opposite. From corruption to law and order, and justice.

[@vinividivinci452]

When "business men" from the US, the European Community, England went to Russia to take over the country they found they were not stupid people at all...

[@AzizDoufikar2280]

Got the reverse card instead😂😂

[@user-yz1zt1nq1p]

THE IRONY OF A BRIT SAYING THIS

[@alkobyte]

Same with almost every country, isn't it?

[@Th3Snipe]

Nope, absolutely not. I live in the Netherlands, totally different story. Normal life here and corruption is punished very harshly. Sure we have our own stories about corruption bit nowhere compaired to criminal Russia.

[@NeveCro]

​@@Th3Snipeyeah right

[@LegendaryCollektor]

Certainly not here in America

[@ogposer]

@@LegendaryCollektorit's the same in America. It has so much people but you still have only 2 old out of their mind dudes as heads of the state for years

[@AzizDoufikar2280]

​@@LegendaryCollektor "certainly not here in America". Yeah right.Nice joke btw.You'd make a great career as a comedian with that line alone.

[@enemyoffetters]

Where as the UK is such a heavenly dreamlike society, right Dominic? Please... Seems the pot is calling the kettle black.

[@rafalpilat4229]

Noone is saying UK is perfect, just that it's not a complete corrupt shithole like Russia

[@dougtemple6756]

That's really cool and unique look into Russia

[@malikamasimova7631]

He thinks everyone should kiss his ass just because he is a westerner, FU.

[@Lejeron]

@@malikamasimova7631no he doesn’t, in the west, you can start a business if you have the knowledge and skills and money. In russia, no matter what you do you’ll get punked and extorted for money. Thats why russia’s population is plummeting.

[@maxhill9254]

@@Lejeron yes exactly and that's one of the reason why the Russian economy is weak.

[@young_fxrewell]

@@maxhill9254 WTF u guys talking about ahaha XD. Living in Saint Petersburg all my life. Not gonna start holy war but what im reading in the comments is really funny. U getting brainwashed guys, stop listening to TV and YT shorts

[@JustAnotherNomad92]

The President Monarch is THE Mob Boss. All those mercenary bosses, mob bosses.

[@popacrovac]

Yep. That's what the West saw as the golden era in Russia, pity Russians disagreed and removed that regime.

[@MrHrKaidoOjamaaVKJV]

A Brit with first hand experience speaks of his experiences!

[@tonyschillaci7622]

As a truck driver I met a lot of Russian people. There is a common depression amongst them As if they have this great shared sadness

[@chillyroom8159]

The country been targetted alot which caused it to be survivalist for tens of years since world war II and before even back to Mongolian times Poor quality of life both from failure of the government and western countries continuously targetting invading or narrowing russia made this worse Russians are people just like me and you,they should have better lifes just as every human must.

[@mcbrians.8508]

@@chillyroom8159 hadn't they been rejecting God and disregarding Him in their minds, all this shouldn't had happened.

[@crazyd4ve875]

@@mcbrians.8508 🤡 if your god is so power hungry, that he would punish and murder all those who don't constantly kiss his arse, what god do you pray to? Kim Jong Un?

[@grammajam3682]

​@@mcbrians.8508russia is a christian country. what are you on about?

[@mcbrians.8508]

@@grammajam3682 take a look at their history and you'll find out. Is that the fruit of a real christian country?

[@WerwolfXIV]

Why did you use a video of Chechen private guards for Dudaev as a an example of "Russian Mafia"?

[@heinzletzte.6385]

because it is propaganda

[@zarni000]

He failed in business and blames the state. Is his fault

[@ichibanmanekineko]

This man was the political strategist for Boris Johnson 😂

[@DLaughing-man]

Same in Nigeria too......those people are crazy

[@DoIoannToKnow]

basically "I did not get the easy come up I thought I would, so now I am going to blame an entire country thats already on everybody's chopping block for misrepresentation" Luckily I'm fluent in anglo deception

[@TheChocolatBlanc]

This was over 30 years ago, when Russia was devastated, waking up from their USSR disaster. Things are not perfect today (far from it) But it’s better.

[@kalvinbaker9551]

Corruption is everywhere. Humans will be humans.

[@davidschmidt270]

The summoning up at the end what this man was saying is basically my ideas of life itself

[@timothyburrows8385]

Thinking it would be easy,a fool and his money

[@ryan.1990]

They do the exact same here, they're just smart enough to call it "climate fund" and other BS loops

[@KolyaUrtz]

They don't do this in Russia btw

[@trvst5938]

What does it mean that Walmart runs a more efficient planned economy than the USSR ever managed? 🚶‍♂️‍➡️

[@SweepAndZone]

Are you slow? ​@@brianwang8546

[@ThatMidWestDude513]

​​@@brianwang8546 well maybe they shouldn't have aided north Korea a few years after ww2 ended, considering their was no real problems, they shot themselves in their own foot, not to mention they have one of the most resource rich countries, so technically they should have been able to run their country just as fine, with sanctions or without, Russia seems ok right now without sanctions right, their holding up better than the soviets did, so far, what's the diffrence, oh that's right, marxism, none the less the sanctions were justified when they started helping north Korea just a mere 2 - 3 years after ww2, not to mention we dont Have to do business with ANYONE that we dont want to, its our choice to trade with who we want to, just like it was their choice to starve 30 million people in just a few years, just like it was their choice to aid North Korea, and just like it was their choice to institute top down totalitarian Marxism, but wait, that was before any sanctions, so why did those people starve, better yet never mind, scratch that, just know China will be the next one we cut out from doing business with, have a good day.

[@leechgully]

It means nothing because its a complete garbage analogy.

[@Jermbot15]

That America never offered to prop up the USSR by paying 6.2 billion dollars a year to cover its workers healthcare and housing costs?

[@helganatt]

@@brianwang8546People will blame everything on the US. It was, of course, Russia’s own damn fault…

[@StephenBrennanGuitar]

This sounds like pre Putin 90's. The US was mostly in control

[@JamesRockefeller45]

Corruption is the most damaging thing to a state.

[@WhyInnovate]

So default mode is how can I take full advantage of the situation?

[@DanielsPolitics1]

How is his eyesight?

[@crazyd4ve875]

sounds like he did bad business there and blamed the Russians for it 😂

[@letsseegames4382]

He did...

[@SHLAVMEISTER]

Nah its fr like that, my father had the same problems in the 90s doing business in Russia.

[@normferguson2769]

Our engineering company CEO was at a conference and talked about setting up an office in Moscow with the Russian ambassador. The ambassador stated the Russian mafia would siphon off all profits and try to control everything the office does. The CEO cancelled any Russian office plans.

[@cross75man75]

This is the country the conservative in America admire so much.

[@samwilliams7192]

Back in my freelance journalism days ('95-'05), I interviewed a tech entrepreneur tryng to run a Linux start up in Moscow. I got similar stories with an added tidbit: "Under Communism, you were essentially trained to lie to your boss every day -- for survival sake. Getting.a Russian employee to tell you the blunt truth -- that a product isn't ready to ship or it failed a critical milestone --is almost impossible." I think about that comment now that I'm a teacher and my students give me work from ChatGPT or PhotoMath. Anyway, the most memorable part of the experience was the $90 charge on the phone bill for a 30 minute call. Similar to the speaker in this video, I expected it to be like a business call to France or the UK. I failed to consider the Russian telephone monopoly, which needed foreign cash as much as anybody in that country.

[@letsseegames4382]

Your friend is really foolish. You must not pay phone call with money in Russia. We're buying "minutes", that is value for phone calls. Btw i'm sure he never worked in USSR.

[@glebaksenov4325]

Linux startup???

[@ari_a2764]

90s russia was crazy. It was pure anarchy until putin came

[@AnthonyKartsev]

@bigr5333 i dont think you realize how bad north korea is lol

[@larrydecoursey8056]

Had a business associate that opened up a Casino inside of a house in Russia 🇷🇺 and guess who wanted a cut of all of the profits? Hint, it wasn’t the Boy Scouts 😂🎉

[@datdam-y8y]

This isn't as groundbreaking as you think. Smarter businessfolks already made room for these. Connections in good places, money to cut red tapes, "gifts" to people in power. Networks of who knows who and loyalty that's expected to be paid in return. In fact I'm sure it's almost the same with doing business and lobbying back in the US, but it's just on steroids in Russia. Your fault is thinking you can do it YOUR way when in actuality you are just another guest in their power play ballroom...

[@blah329]

Who actually trusts anything Cummings has to say…

[@LS-xs7sg]

It’s the same here. Money still gets offshored and nothing gets efficiently built. It just takes a more convoluted route

[@synewparadigm]

The US spent $7.5 billion on EV charging stations and built only 1 with the money.

[@retardinho5048]

@@synewparadigmHahaha! Thats rookie numbers in Russia! You gotta try way harder.

[@black_jackovich]

Mafia is italian invention. Fascism is also italian invention. But mafia-ruled fascism is our know-how

[@alibabaev1135]

And nothing has changed

[@yhwhsproperty3360]

The keys to the kingdom are the hearing / reading of, the recieving of, and acceptance of the gospel / good news of Christ Jesus.

[@philmarlow3881]

After what was done to them in the 90’s why would you expect anything else? Especially if you fly in with a London accent?

[@tomekes6584]

Russia is a state of mind. (Polish proverb).

[@MashnikovII]

Googled it with chatgpt, it looks like you are kinf of making it up. 😂

[@AnthonyKartsev]

love it

[@Morgan-t3o]

This is why Putin is so popular in Russia. He cleaned this mess up and people are afraid it will return if he is gone.

[@rockerjim8045]

they definitely have a gangster in the Kremlin

[@KolyaUrtz]

Have? You mean had? He was talking about Yeltsin here...not putin

[@yasyadefen1135]

​@@KolyaUrtzсправедливости ради во времена Ельцина Путин как раз таки и был самым настоящим гангстером. Почитай про кооператив "Озеро" и Собчака. Кто выжил в те времена, все в правительстве сидят или сидели

[@caliguy1260]

Without rule of law that safeguards property rights, a business cannot flourish.

[@randomstranger7114]

he glows brightly when an idea pops into his head

[@lordium1848]

The 90s were hard for all post Soviet Republics, not just Russia, with the majority of them being ruled by mafia, but it’s not that surprising, considering the fact that such a massive country as USSR fell apart, leading to complete chaos and lack of a proper government. You can’t just expect them to adopt democracy and capitalism overnight, when it has never even been on their mind before.

[@macaco_br5485]

well an old friend told me that after the soviet union collapsed his dad grab an ak went to a fabric and said "this now belongs to me" and the manager gave him the rights of owning the fabric and thats how a russian oligarch is born doing later similar things but in ukraine and back in russia making friends in Gazprom

[@CircoDeo]

The United States people are so righteous that we assume the rest of the world is righteous too

[@flashbeaster]

right Mr. Cummings, like Pandora papers never covered you or party mates who did exactly the same thing

[@michaels6391]

Airlines can barely function without massive subsidies, going to Russia to start an airline specifically is a weird thing to do

[@Aurelius1983]

People also have to realise that Russia in general is filled with very educated people. I believe if you went to college you could avoid the military , so there was a huge incentive for people to study hard. Where a lot of people thought that when they opened up the economy they were dealing with ‘uneducated’ people they got that totally wrong. They were dealing with very shrewd businessmen, who were smarter than the system. The FBI said it nice once, American gangsters play card games, Russian gangsters play chess.

[@A91ISS]

Exactly, but general education wasn't necessarily a huge advantage. The majority of people who took over Russia in the 90s had an economic education and they knew how things worked. Russia is the only country where you can see a homeless starving person with 3+ college degrees behind his back...

[@cutebear1817]

Oh come on many Russians are fantastic people

[@LegendaryCollektor]

Ew

[@adurpandya2742]

Does Russia have a sense of honor? If not the state, then the people and society?

[@Oberon4278]

😂 no

[@adurpandya2742]

@ sad

[@synewparadigm]

It's all about survival.

[@mikekelly5869]

Definitely not.

[@floridaman4073]

When you are focused on survival, other things go by the wayside.

[@jlc9914]

What i heard is, "I didn't listen to anyone about how bad Russia is. I was stubborn and wanted to prove everyone wrong"...

[@Rick-or2kq]

Are they trying to say that people in one country are more corrupt then in another? Human nature is what it is in any country.

[@codycurtin2295]

Ah that capitalism worked out so well for them...

[@jshepard152]

That's their fault.