The Courage of Sir Bill Browder | Andrew Roberts | Hoover Institution

[@kevingallen1678]

Sir Bill genuinely deserves his Knighthood.

[@D5Pasadena]

Excellent!

[@huna1950]

Can’t imagine being this man but fair play…his one about India should stop buying oil from Vlad a wee bit optimistic in the past Also saying that Trump agreed with Vlad to detail him sounds quite unbelievable

[@vanessak.sanders1292]

Browder is courageous and steadfast man.

[@allen2634]

Wasn't this the guy that tried to steal all the Russians assets???

[@CollectiveDefence]

You must mean Putin and his gang of fellow criminals.

[@jasonneugebauer5310]

The situation that was discussed at the beginning about the tax fraud and subsequent misdeeds was very tragic. It's unfortunate that crimes and corruption like this take place. I feal with much sadness that a similar sinario could likely take place in perhaps a third of the country's on Earth. I do not say this to excuse the crimes. The crimes were horrible. It is unfortunate that major crime is business as usual and justice is mostly lacking. However, I can not comprehend the extent of the crimes piled on in the second half of the interview. The level of theft proposed seems insanely counterproductive to the best interest of the parties involved. If you are the self appointed ruler of a large country with a large economy, it hurts my brain to think that you would spend a tremendous effort to take most of the profits from all the businesses in the country. No profits = no growth. First, you run the country you can direct how things are run. You can print money and spend it how you see appropriate. You can write the laws and inforce them how you see appropriate. There is a lot that can be done. Second, if businesses do badly GDP falls, everything gets worse. It would make sense to keep everything working reasonably well. Businesses do well government gets more money and people have jobs and are less likely to be unhappy and violent. Third, what does one man need hundreds of millions of currency units to do? He can't possibly use it all for his own pleasure. If he is not using it for himself, he must be using it to some purpose. He also knows when he dies the money will not be of great value to himself and will likely be dangerous for whoever is holding it. So, I assume that the purpose of the money must play a role in his style of running the government. Be that good or bad. Corruption is bad for the country and for the people. It is tragic that so many must suffer for the inefficient use of resources by those numerous who see it as their right to take and to destroy.