I once spent an entire summer with a family without working out what my employer did for a living. When Russia invaded Ukraine I saw a small crack in this façade. My boss is a commodities trader who lives in a prosperous city outside Moscow. Before work each morning his chauffeur drives us to the gym in a Maybach. We usually spend the ten-minute journey having a discussion about the brutal training regime we’re about to be put through.

Source: The Times April 26, 2022 17:45 UTC