With the Russian economy in freefall, oligarchs are calling for peace

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Dog the Megayacht Hunter.

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Geraldo could give Fox the finger. (He’s their voice of reason? What a world!)

Lifestyles of the Obscenely-Rich and Infamous.

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Lifestyles of the Formerly Rich and Increasingly Famous.

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Forbes has clarified:

CORRECTION: According to the Ministry for Economy and Innovation in the German state of Hamburg, the country’s authorities have not seized the Dilbar, a 512-foot yacht owned by sanctioned Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov. As Forbes reported on Wednesday, work on the ship has been halted at the Hamburg shipyard where it has been stationed for refitting work since October.

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Was it dry docked? Shame if anybody took the water valve handle home.

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Putin wants peace too. He wants a piece of Georgia, a piece of Moldova, a few pieces of Ukraine, a piece of Finland, a few pieces of Baltic states, and a piece of Poland.

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That’s what Paul Watson would have done.

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Every time I hear that slogan, I always picture that person cracking a whip at a group of babies in hard hats next to an oil rig yelling “Drill baby, drill!”
It rarely seems that out of character.
ETA: Especially when it’s written the way it is on the Fox New chyron over Sarah Palin

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A few killjoy observations from smart-seeming experts on the news lately.

  1. At this point, “the oligarchs” probably don’t have the ability to rein Putin in, and certainly not to “retire” him.

  2. Putin made them rich through kleptocratic means once, and he can do it again, and they know this. If he can “win” this—get to a new status quo where eventually sanctions end, even if Russia is vastly worse off on the whole—he’ll be able to make it worth their while.

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It won’t be the oligarchs that oust Putin. The Russian people aren’t going to put up with a repeat of the 90s.

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He won’t live that long

The U.S. still has sanctions on Cuba

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Constantinople. Byzantine Empire. Back then there were a lot of royal murder and blinding of enemies real and imagined… even of a son or two thinking of taking over. Maybe Moscow is Constantinople.

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I suppose it’s looking backwards with nostalgia, but I kinda wish letters of marque were still a thing. If Ukraine issued them against vessels believed owned by Russians, with an admiralty court set up to formally transfer ownership once captured, they’d have a great way to seize them and sell them to help finance their defense. Sadly, or perhaps for the best, Ukraine has stated that they inherited on the event of their independence the Russian Empire’s treaty obligations on the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907, which iirc prohibit privateering. Still, one can dream of piracy and turning privateer and ignore the reality of slavery, imprisonment, blood, and death and be well within the tropes of the conceit.

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