We don’t know where these places are, but plenty of people who have a vested interest in taking these billionaires out most certainly do know. Not just state actors, either; billionaires work with cartels and other forms of organized crime, and these people can turn on you at the drop of a hat.
State protection is not just to save billionaires from the relatively far-off threat of revolution. These oligarchs have plenty of powerful enemies in the here and now, not to mention “friends” who will turn on them at the first advantageous opportunity.
They might stumble into it, unwillingly, no?
China? India?
They are also protected by the veil of obscurity. We’ve all heard of those giant villas and private islands, buy do we actually know where those are?
We don’t know where these places are, but plenty of people who have a vested interest in taking these billionaires out most certainly do know. Not just state actors, either; billionaires work with cartels and other forms of organized crime, and these people can turn on you at the drop of a hat.
State protection is not just to save billionaires from the relatively far-off threat of revolution. These oligarchs have plenty of powerful enemies in the here and now, not to mention “friends” who will turn on them at the first advantageous opportunity.