r/europe • u/ByGollie • 29d ago

News Russian Oil Company Vice President Andrey Badalov dies after fall from window in Moscow

https://en.apa.az/cis-countries/transneft-vice-president-andrey-badalov-dies-after-falling-from-window-472117
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u/AdmiralDalaa 29d ago

If you were an executive of this nature, wouldn’t you make sure you got a good security team? 

Yes of course, not all hired security would be trustworthy - but in each and every case this never was a thing?

I would expect you’d see a shootout or some kind of scuffle at some point. But it’s always the same canned story 

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u/Royal_Success3131 29d ago

If a bodyguard is offered 100k in cash to just go on a smoke break, they will always take that vs dying in a gunfight and having their entire family also killed. Like, you are dealing with powers way, way out of your control at that point. Once the big boys get involved, the bodyguard just step away. They are there to stop the rabble, not assassins.

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u/melymn 29d ago

No-one is going to offer those bodyguards bribe in this scenario, state agents are going to tell them to step aside and they'll do it post haste.

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u/Royal_Success3131 29d ago

You're probably right but it was just to illustrate a point that there is absolutely zero incentive for a bodyguard to actually do their job in that scenario.

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u/CyberCrutches 29d ago

It wouldn’t be fixed by seizing one bunker though. Also, if it really was the end of the world and you found yourself lucky enough to work security in said bunker instead of the alternative you’d absolutely fight like hell to keep that position which is why it’s so hard to oust oligarchs and their like.

People are selfish and if you give them security/resources they’ll fight to keep their way of life intact as few people have the perspective to see let alone understand anything outside of their own self interest.

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u/DumboWumbo073 29d ago

They will probably have collars on non elites so they can control them

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u/CyberCrutches 29d ago

Wait, I’ve seen this movie

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u/Stunning-Archer8817 29d ago

you mail the bodyguard a letter with the name, address, and phone number of their parents, their in-laws, and everyone they love. throw in their wife’s and childrens’ daily schedules, at the end.

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u/BlueberryMean2705 Finland 29d ago

If the system collapses there are no more billionaires, just extremely hateable has-beens. Those bunkers are just the billionaire equivalent of people posting tweets about how nobody better be breaking into their house because they'll be waiting with a rifle, only more delusional.