In this video, we will analyze how Russian oligarchs are arming themselves. According to Russian media, Gazprom reached an agreement with the Russian Ministry of Defense to establish mobile air defense units. In effect, Russia’s wealthiest state linked companies are being allowed to finance, equip, and direct their own armed formations to defend private industrial assets. This fundamentally shifts the balance of power between the Kremlin and Russia’s oligarchs by giving major corporations armed personnel under their effective control. This is significant because it represents another shift away from the Kremlin’s sole monopoly on armed forces. While these units are officially tied to the state, they are financed by the companies whose facilities they defend, giving powerful business interests unprecedented influence over organized armed personnel. This is dangerous because these oligarch

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