cronies, on one hand some of them may be propping that person up financially. either they're doing their business for them, maybe the businesses are actually in their name and not the leader's name, maybe they're forced to contribute in some way or support something, maybe there's a buy ammunition, for example, so some of this financially hit them because it could end up supporting the foreign policy objective, and sometimes it's actually about letting them suffer so much that they go to the leader and say, what are you doing? we're coming at this from a completely different perspective, business perspective, economic perspective, and why do you think that you're doing is worth undermining all that we've built? it did not work in syria. it worked in that those elites get hit, they had to move their money all to russia, by the way. so a lot of them weren't able to sell their businesses. a lot of them lost money in converting to rubles. they couldn't travel to europe anymore or send their kids to