The Justice Department’s Task Force KleptoCapture – made up of federal prosecutors, investigators and analysts – has worked for the past year to target the complex web of wealth surrounding Russian oligarchs and Kremlin insiders. Since the beginning of the war, the Justice Department has seized more than $500 million in yachts, properties and other assets from people who support the Russian government and have evaded US sanctions, according to a department news release.
The department has also brought over 30 indictments against sanctioned supporters of the Kremlin and Russian military, the department has said, some of which have directly implicated individuals in supporting the war in Ukraine.
Merrick, we still don’t see an indictment for a Russian supporter named trump. Wut up?
The audience did not laugh at everything Lavrov had to say, however. Asked about the “double standard” of western military intervention, the audience applauded his response.
“Have you been interested in these years in what is going on in Iraq, what is going on in Afghanistan? Have you been asking the United States and Nato whether they are certain of what they are doing?” he asked.
“Have you been interested in these years in what is going on in Iraq, what is going on in Afghanistan? Have you been asking the United States and Nato whether they are certain of what they are doing?” he asked.
Liberals and progressives in the West have been not only interested but critical of those military actions. Unlike Russians stuck under the regime this thug serves, they’re not thrown in the gulag when they speak out in opposition.
At a festival in Krasnodar Territory, some cadets performed a song about flying home as Cargo 200 (Russian military code for the transport of troops killed in action)
In non-fascist societies, the lay public is told that death is unpleasant but must be faced with dignity; believers are told that it is the painful way to reach a supernatural happiness. By contrast, the Ur-Fascist hero craves heroic death, advertised as the best reward for a heroic life. The Ur-Fascist hero is impatient to die. In his impatience, he more frequently sends other people to death.
Whereas Socialism, and even capitalism in a more grudging way, have said to people ‘I offer you a good time,’ Hitler has said to them ‘I offer you struggle, danger and death,’ and as a result a whole nation flings itself at his feet.
Of course, those in leadership positions in fascist regimes find a way of avoiding all that unpleasantness for themselves and their families. The luxury-loving Lavrov, with his foreign junkets and vacations, is a case in point.
Be gentle, this is my first comment…I’ve been checking on Google Earth for two months, now every day or so, and Google Earth, so far, does not show any damage to the Kerch Bridge. Is this Russian or Ukrainian war popaganda or something?
“According to the Google Earth blog, Google Earth updates about once a month. However, this doesn’t mean that every image is updated every month. In fact, the average map data is between one and three years old.”
I’m in a rural area that clearly has not been updated in years, so it’s not just the big-city buildings-going-up-each-week places that are lagging. To say nothing of the bridges-being-blown-up places in active war zones!
