They’re all in it together, but the ones less loyal to Putin have a habit of dying.

Putin has had a bunch of them killed.

There’s a great podcast called Sad Oligarch that goes over it all.

So yeah, Putin is not currently a puppet ruler.

Stalin tried to enforce the Lenin treatment for himself…

It doesn’t always stick.

The next person to gain power is 100% going to clean house, because the Russian government is a pit of back biting vipers.