Originally Posted by Moses
Oel (March 3rd, 2022)
As I recall Peter the Great built Saint Petersburg on land taken from Sweden
Germany seizes Russian billionaire Usmanov's yacht -Forbes
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe...es-2022-03-02/BERLIN, March 2 (Reuters) - German authorities have seized a nearly $600 million luxury yacht owned by Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov who has faced European Union sanctions over Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Forbes reported, citing sources in the yacht industry.
The 512-foot yacht, Dilbar, was taken in the northern port of Hamburg, the Forbes website reported.
The yacht had been undergoing a refit in shipyards of Blohm + Voss, Forbes reported, adding that the German government had frozen the asset and employees working on the ship did not appear for work on Wednesday.
Putin made sure to get his yacht out of Germany before the invasion.
I'd love to wake up to a news headline tomorrow saying, "NATO Airstrikes Obliterate Russian Column Near Kiev".
The way I see it is NATO is going to get dragged into Putin's bullshit one way or another, so might aswell do it sooner than later.
That isn't in the cards.
Not necessary.
Tell that to the people holed up underground in metro stations in Kiev right now.
If Russia's previous actions in both Ukraine and other countries is anything to go off of, they're going to level that city to the ground. And it's not like Putin plans on stopping after Ukraine. His idiot right hand man in Belarus already provided the world a map showcasing next stop is Moldova.
It's only a matter of time before NATO gets dragged into this, so might as well do it now.
The Forum ten year old is hoping for nuclear war?? What a surprise
Ok, we'll just politely ask the dictator to stop invading countries then.
He's already made his ambitions about as clear as it gets, and has now backed those ambitions up with an invasion. There is no turning back for Putin anymore -- it's all or nothing now. NATO can either jump in now on their time, or later on Putin's time. Sooner or later though, NATO will get dragged into this.
This isn't checkers - it's chess.
NATO is already as involved as they need to be.
Building a massive global alliance - Isolating Russia from the Free World - and destroying the Russian economy (which is needed to maintain their military) are clearly the Wests primary objectives. Putting NATO boots on the ground is off the table.
Regarding Putin's assets: They've already determined that Putin's personal assets have been distributed within a network of oligarchs who were taxed with the responsibility of sheltering these assets for exactly this purpose. Thus the reason that sanctioning the oligarch's overseas assets was at the top of the Wests hit parade. When they lose money - he loses money.
Patience is a virtue...another world war won't benefit anyone.
There’s interesting speculation online this week about the form of his eventual downfall. Do the generals tap him on the shoulder or will it be whatever the KGB is called these days. It will likely be the same sort of transition as Kruschhev after the failure of his Cuba strategy or Brezhnev after the shambles of the war in Afghanistan.
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