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Is there any actual evidence that Putin is actively corrupt on the level of say Jared Kushner or Hunter Biden (and their father figures), or is it just kinda an a priori thing so we can pat ourselves on the back?



Video by Alexei Navalny - "Putin's palace. The story of the world's biggest bribe"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_tFSWZXKN0

Also bear in mind that Putin has a record of killing or imprisoning people he regards as being insufficiently loyal.


Respectfully, this is like me asking about Obama and you replying with a Dinesh D'Souza hitjob. That video has been thoroughly debunked as a baseless conspiracy theory.


Debunked where / by whom?


Arkady Rotenberg and others have claimed current or prior ownership of the property. It really is just a conspiracy theory produced by rabidly anti-Putin media operatives like Navalny -- the exact same playbook as Dinesh D'Souza or "Project Veritas".


It hasn't been debunked. Putin is a crook.

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/comrade-...

The original allegation was made by Sergei Kolesnikov, not Navalny. Reuters traced the money which was used to build Putin's Palace. Any of Putin's associates can claim ownership in order to take the heat off of him, but it is his to use as he sees fit.


There isn't any evidence of corruption by Joe or Hunter Biden.

https://apnews.com/article/hunter-biden-fbi-informant-smirno...


Yeah, definitely. Thanks for clearing that up!




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