Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/09/30/us-treasury-goes-after-russia.html
US imposes sanctions on 3 companies Yevgeniy Prigozhin uses to manage 3 planes and 1 yacht.
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Oligarchs call Putin.
Putin calls Trump.
Trump dismisses this as “very unfair” and orders Treasury not to proceed.
It could happen like that.
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During the Sochi F1 race Button was making an on air comment when he was pulled away by an FIA official at the request of a Russian oligarch. They are just assholes.
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bits me wat you talkin bout hear, xeni. IRA is respectubul “theenk tank” about theengs technologika run by legitimate beeznusman. why are americansk rootless cosmopolitans taking svet of his brow?
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So if somebody were to “repo” one of these expensive toys and deliver it to Uncle Sam, is there a reward? (AFAF) 
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Lots of possibilities… all unsavory. Anything goes in the Trumpian Timeline.
Either the UST is not currently in Trump’s backpocket because that would be too difficult (or has been too difficult)…
… or Putin (with Trump’s knowledge) is sacrificing two knights and a bishop to save King Trump (who would crow about the UST action as “proof” he is not in cahoots with Russia).
My monopoly money is on the first.
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Yeah, these are the easy pickins’. Putin and Trump offer this as a, “Look! We’re cracking down!” moment for our consumption. This is part of the 2020 campaign.
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…or, these guys might have run out their usefulness to Putin and he gave us the go ahead to go after them, to make a political show for the Trump voting rubes here: “see, we aren’t Russian toadies, we are going after these guys.”
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I tend to agree. Mnuchin is a creepy greedpig and his Marie Antoinette wife is worse, but I think the arrangement was that Treasury was the one department he had to keep his tiny hands off of if he wanted to retain the support of wealthy moneyCons. They’ll give that grifting fake tycoon a lot of leeway in other areas, but they’re not going to allow him to endanger their money. They want an adult in the room there, and Mnuchin has outlasted a lot of other cabinet secretaries and advisors.
That said, there was likely a similar arrangement regarding the Fed, but that’s gone out the window since he realised the only way to keep his stupid trade wars for tanking the economy is by bullying them to keep lowering interest rates. Unlike Mnuchin, the Fed chairman can’t keep Il Douche in line by promising he’ll fight to keep those tax returns secret as long as he leaves the grownups alone.
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I’m tending to the more optimistic idea that at least some parts of the government are working as they are supposed to. Guess I’m just a wild-eyed idealist… Or an idiot. Hard to tell these days.
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Yawn. Call me when someone’s in jail.
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Placing the luxury asset holding companies on the SDN list might make for a splash in headlines, but they’re not really “going after” these things in the normal sense.
This just means Putin’s goons will have to restock and refuel in non-American non EU nations.
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Editor’s Note: The lede image used in the original story is incorrect. Below is the appropriate image. We apologize for the confusion.
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Yup. Had to read the whole article to get an idea of what “going after” really means.
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