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Russian Billionaire Can’t Pay His Cleaner Because of Sanctions (ft. Don Tran)

#sanctions#russia#western#donald#putin
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0:00 [Music] i love dicks huge fans love their wood dicks are the best i'm pro-dick i'm pro-dick one action welcome to pro dick's is that the name of the show sounds like a pro shop for dicks welcome to pro dicks all right we're gonna talk about some sanctions i'm talking about some western sanctions talk about some western sanctions talk about some western sanctions is this about the ukraine and russia so russian oligarchy a russian oligarch worth 13 billion dollars now cannot pay his cleaner because of said western sanctions wait so he's like broke broke like all his bank accounts all his

0:50 finances are just frozen yeah that came in right he should have got bitcoin dawg so his name is mikhail friedman fredman i don't know if i'm pronounced right but anyways he said he doesn't know how to live after his wealth was stripped by western sanctions this russian businessman currently lives in the uk and has a net worth of about 13.7 billion wow and while shells rained down on the people in ukraine he has told people uh in articles that his suffering after copying sanctions for the european union on february 28th uh and march 15 have put him in such a place where he can't pay his home cleaners so he has to clean the house by himself oh he has to mop i was like i can't believe it i'm mopping

1:40 so i can't believe for me do you think he wished he had a smaller house i used to be an old tycoon [Laughter] he did say we sincerely believed we are such good friends of the western world that we couldn't be punished the 57 year old banking mandate co-founded london investment firm letter one and is a former board member of russia's alpha bank can you imagine trying to mop a ten thousand square foot mansion he previously how do you wash an airplane it was like this is not enough my house is too big he's using windex to clean his plane that's probably why all those uh chinese ballers the minute they have money they start sending it west huh yeah because they already distrust their government

2:31 so like any time the government can freeze my ████ so to keep it liquid i'm gonna buy homes in america i'm gonna set up bank accounts in america have a kid in america yeah that's smart dang because of the sanctions he is he is allowed to withdraw about 2 500 pounds a month which is technically more than the average uh british person gets in their salary after taxes 2 500 so aka um yeah bubble it's like a spending allowance because of the sanctions but a billionaire with 3-4 grand a month that's a huge good job because his bills are probably in like the millions a month and he also has to apply for a special license in order to spend money wow not ████ crazy they're getting wrecked it's hard for me to feel bad for a billionaire but then um i'm also wondering like why did they attack

3:22 the rich people of russia like do they have some connections to the government or did they have some involvement because i'm just curious like at least you know in the states if let's say something happened and can you imagine like them ████ with bezels and bill gates and all that stuff and i'm like isn't it just attacking all of the people like the sanctions are on the people and so if you utilize like the banking services then whether you're poor or rich you just get ████ right he says that uh he's um he hit out at sanctions claiming that he doesn't even have the power over putin or the kremlin's decisions quote i've never been in any state company or state position uh if the people who are in charge in the eu believe that because of sanctions i could approach mr putin and tell him to stop the war and it will work then i'm afraid we're all in big trouble this

4:12 guy's cool man yeah i get that i mean he's a realist yeah yeah can you imagine like let's say the owner of like petco of russia or some ████ you know like he's like yeah i i just sell ████ doggy food [Laughter] america like uh come on if you want the doghouse i give to you but this anxious man i'm assuming those because they want him to stop spending his money in ukraine and russia i mean russia right and it's all about the flow of money on how russia is going to build their military to continue fighting because they get taxed yeah the taxes and stuff that because right now when they cough the oil they cut off all the money going back into russia as well

5:04 all of it you know and all those pipelines that flow into western europe is like so russia as a as an entity will not have any more revenue coming in yes and it collapses their economy in general but it's also going to collapse western europe because most of their energy comes from russia so that's a huge it was a conflict of interest too because um germany like you know maybe 90 something percent of all their oil and everything gases everything the pipelines they all like connected to russia does that incentivize germany to want to fight america then because then they're like if you're choking my pipeline you're now my enemy too well they're a part of nato so like traditionally like you know they're on the west right so like they've always been on that side so um

5:54 there's this there's this funny exchange like when when trump was in uh office uh back then maybe a lot of people didn't get it but it's been going around like on youtube and it's it's a clip of him just talking ████ to the german chancellor and saying like like or like the representative and he goes isn't it a conflict of interest that you have a pipeline with russia and like what if something happens and then it's like how are you part of nato but at the same time all of your energy comes from russia yeah and then i'm like oh damn hmm i don't know politics is weird but yeah how would you navigate that you know it's just crazy that like all the things that were sound bites by trump before that sounded ████ crazy now you're like oh damn each thing kind of makes sense now holy ████ yeah but it's he's such an unlikable character like that if you say anything that maybe

6:46 even sounds like you're supporting it then all of a sudden you're like this trump supporter and people hate you but then like i'm like god damn dude i wish it wasn't so like one way or you gotta be against or with or like why don't you just flirt with the middle and stop calling trump stop calling donald mr donald ducks mr donald trump you know what donald was talking about how just sounds so nice donald because of donald duck because even like you know like right now it seems like putin's like this powerful ass dude right but then before like the video of going around is trump always like pulling ████ in yeah the handshake yeah he's pulling everyone in and then at the in those days when he's saying crazy ████ like this guy's a ████ bully but then now you're like when there's an actual bully like a right like uh yeah like um ascending you're like oh that guy was kind of like keeping people in check a little bit did

7:37 you see the compilation of of him not getting handshakes i love it dude like he's all like getting ready to shake hands and then like the prime minister of like france or whatever is like oh putin not or like even kim jong-un he's all like showing putin like a map and ████ and then putin's just like pulls out his hand and he just looks at his it's hilarious just play this because it's semi worth it they're scared putin's gonna shoulder throat yeah yeah yeah he's gonna judo toss him and then putin just puts his hand back on his paw it's like a lit it's like so funny i hope we don't get none of the music's not gonna fly that's right no we just make it silent no no music but yeah so here we go here we go oh he went back for twice what about this one [Music]

8:39 it's the origin of a villain bro yeah and then when he reaches for the hand and then he looks down at his hand for a second and goes wow the internet always wins he he saw this video and then he started the war dude it was the day after he started after all yeah he was like all these ████ never shake my hand i bet there's a sentiment of that though right like he's trying to prove or something to everybody that's why he's like pressing so hard for this in a lot of weird ways yeah his back is against i will say it is crazy seeing like videos of like uh russians on their balconies and stuff taking like rubles and just throwing it out because it just means nothing now what yeah you haven't seen those and you got chinese people at the bottom catching it [Laughter] have you heard about um they're not

9:30 allowed to go on facebook or like a lot of these things are getting blocked now yeah and then um there's actually russian youtubers that they're vlogging and all that and they're like i don't know when it's gonna be gone so we're living in a weird ████ time now where we can watch people that you know are supposed to be our enemies and we can see what's happening out there and whatever and it's kind of weird man like it's like everyday people are kind of like now we get to connect better because we can see what's happening and we can treat them as human beings whereas in the past i think as even as like as early as when we were kids right it was easier for nations to assemble people and and their citizens and say ████ those guys those guys are the devil yeah and we're here to murder all of them right and then you only get the propaganda that's given to you only there's not no other perspective no

10:21 other voice there's no no seeing videos of people you know protesting in front of you know the kremlin and stuff like that yeah and whatnot there's actually a viral clip going around right now of a russian instagram influencer and she's like totally crying and stuff like that because she's talking about how as an instagram influencer that's her job that's her life obviously people are kind of like low-key shaming her and giving her backlash though because like i don't maybe people still don't fully understand the concept of being a social media influencer but she's definitely just like balling about how like instagram is now closing so she like has is losing her livelihood and her ability to do everything that's scary and that's just like that's real yeah that's crazy and it's from war but it is kind of funny that like it is my career but i think it's hilarious it is like a boohoo thing still it's like i can see myself too like

11:12 crying my eyes out if all of youtube and instagram disappears and i'm like ████ my livelihood but then also the comedy kicks in and i'm like dude that's hilarious just still work out vladimir's pizza or whatever vladimir speaks huge piece of chain yeah we're all gonna work out vladimir's pizza [Music] you

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