Spoiler alert: It doesn’t.
You probably giggled recently at the absurdly high fine the Russian court handed out to Google.
“Although it is a specific amount, I cannot even say this number, it is rather filled with symbolism,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
Well of course it is symbolic, they don’t expect that such an amount can be paid. This is Russian narcissism at its finest. In despotic societies, overkill is considered a sign of assertiveness and power. Same as all those defenestrations, poisonings, and unlawful jailings of people that the Kremlin doesn’t like, or daily nuclear threats coming from Russia. Ludicrous punishments for imaginary crimes against the Dear Leader and his cronies are a trademark of nations ruled by tyrants.
Some of you might ask when will Russia pay up for the damage caused to, say, Ukraine? Those fines are already being handed out. A Finnish court has ordered $4.25 billion in assets owned by Russia in Finland to be confiscated at the request of Ukrainian state firm Naftogaz, as a compensation for the Russian seizure of Naftogaz’s property when Moscow’s troops invaded Crimea in 2014.
Guess the Russian war against the collective West and mathematics isn’t going so well.
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