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Giant £570 million superyacht 'owned by Vladimir Putin' is seized by Italian authorities as part of sanctions against Russia over invasion of Ukraine
U.K. Daily Mail ^ | 5/6/2022 | TOM PYMAN and NICK PISA

Posted on 05/07/2022 1:41:37 PM PDT by simpson96

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To: Jacquerie

Don’t forget McConnell.


101 posted on 05/07/2022 5:17:32 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: simpson96

Note that Fiji has seized a Russian-owned superyacht as did France on yet another such superyacht, on behalf of the USA in the Justice Department’s Task Force KleptoCapture. Some such sanctions go back to at least 2018.

https://matzav.com/russian-oligarchs-300-million-yacht-seized-by-fiji-on-behalf-of-u-s/


102 posted on 05/07/2022 5:33:06 PM PDT by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: jimwatx

What proof do you have of Russia having 6,000 nukes?

What’s the annual upkeep and replacement cost? And what’s the Russian budget?

Hint: it’s not nearly enough to maintain 6,000 nukes.


103 posted on 05/07/2022 8:46:39 PM PDT by MercyFlush (The Soviet Empire is right now doing a dead cat bounce.)
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To: MercyFlush

The number I gave is the number the BBC and MSN reported. Not all are actively deployed, and different sources give different counts.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60564123


104 posted on 05/07/2022 8:52:51 PM PDT by jimwatx
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To: jimwatx

When you start digging into the details you’ll find that there’s no evidence that Russia has produced a new nuke since 2017.

The budget numbers don’t add up either.


105 posted on 05/07/2022 9:10:33 PM PDT by MercyFlush (The Soviet Empire is right now doing a dead cat bounce.)
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To: simpson96

It should be sold and used to rebuilt Mariupol.


106 posted on 05/07/2022 9:30:25 PM PDT by ScottinVA (Кчерту Путина, Kчерту Россию)
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To: MercyFlush

Look I don’t know what you’re getting at here, are you pretending Russia doesn’t have more than enough nukes to easily wipe us out? They have 800 on their submarines alone which is more than enough to not only wipe us out but Europe too. I swear some of you people have lost your minds.


107 posted on 05/07/2022 9:31:49 PM PDT by jimwatx
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To: kiryandil

His brother was a rabid atheist. I didn’t like him and I don’t like Peter Hitchens either.

Poncey git.


108 posted on 05/08/2022 11:57:32 AM PDT by jmacusa (America. Founded by geniuses. Now governed by idiots. )
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To: jmacusa
Kit Hitchens was a pr*ck - but he was one of the last of the real journalists.

He blew the whistle on the Clinton campaign to paint Monica Lewinsky as "nuts and sluts".

He outed that little Clinton mittweasel Sid "The Squid" Blumenthal.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/1999/02/hitchens-v-blumenthal.html

109 posted on 05/08/2022 4:47:38 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: jimwatx

“They have 800 (nukes) on their submarines alone”

Russia currently has eleven SSBNs. Two of which are alongside and cold at Murmansk and four more are alongside and cold at Severodvinsk. “Cold” means their reactors are shut down.

They have five SSBN that are somewhat capable of active duty.

Three are reportedly at sea and for whatever reason two are alongside at Petropavlovsk and haven’t moved in quite some time but at least they seem to show some signs of life.

In any case five subs do not carry 800 nukes.

And right about now for every Soviet SSBN that puts to sea we have firing solutions on them 24/7 from multiple vectors.


110 posted on 05/08/2022 6:04:44 PM PDT by MercyFlush (The Soviet Empire is right now doing a dead cat bounce.)
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To: MercyFlush

The Russian submarine fleet has a sterling record of nuclear submarine accidents too.


111 posted on 05/08/2022 8:16:57 PM PDT by jmacusa (America. Founded by geniuses. Now governed by idiots. )
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To: jmacusa

True! The Russians have killed more Russian subs than anyone else!


112 posted on 05/09/2022 6:33:11 AM PDT by MercyFlush (The Soviet Empire is right now doing a dead cat bounce.)
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To: Jacquerie

Thanks to the founding fathers there is a limit to how much the democrats can impoverish the country. There is no such limit on dictators like Putin.


113 posted on 05/10/2022 5:48:04 AM PDT by Cronos
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