Putin and the Oligarchs

Oligarchs are senior Kremlin economic managers they should rather be thought of in terms of I don't know the minister for the aluminium industry or for oil. Their role is essentially to yes obviously enjoy themselves and skim off what they can but only in the process of managing those assets for the state. There's no sense we I'm getting from Putin at the moment not just of shame for the political blunder he made in going into Ukraine with everything that's involved but also no sense of options it's really quite striking actually one looks at his language of late it's full of phrases like we had no alternative  as far as he's concerned in some ways this is it he is playing a