How Putin’s Oligarchs Bought London

Re:How Putin’s Oligarchs Bought London by danans on Friday March 18, 2022 @06:52PM (#30728642)

Their yachts are apparently escaping to the Maldives [1], so that's an option, as long as it's not underwater. But then again, they have yachts.

1. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-02/russian-o...

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Re:How Putin’s Oligarchs Bought London by thelittleone on Friday March 18, 2022 @08:10PM (#30729352)

I love the Maldives but if they become a haven to escape sanctions, it could be taken in a few hours, confiscate the yachts, then return Maldives to their government.

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Re:How Putin’s Oligarchs Bought London by nickff on Friday March 18, 2022 @08:35PM (#30729560)

You're suggesting invading a country to impose sanctions on individuals from a different country? This seems extreme and unjustified.

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Re:How Putin’s Oligarchs Bought London by notacoward on Friday March 18, 2022 @09:01PM (#30729761)

You mean like forcing down a plane going between two other countries because you wanted to arrest a journalist who was on it?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Protasevich

(Russia's puppet BTW)

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Re:How Putin’s Oligarchs Bought London by unmole on Friday March 18, 2022 @10:32PM (#30730365)

No, violating a countries sovereignty is objectively worse than redirecting a plane flying in your airspace.

And speaking of forcing a plane going between two countries to land try to make a political arrest, who did it first?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evo_Morales_grounding_incident

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Re:How Putin’s Oligarchs Bought London by fmajid on Friday March 18, 2022 @11:04PM (#30730555)

And before that, there was the highly picaresque story of Abu Abbas, the mastermind of the Achille Lauro hijacking (and ensuing murder of American Jewish tourist Leon Klinghoffer). There are so many twists and turns in this story, involving diplomatic crises between the US, Italy, Egypt, Syria, Iraq and various Palestinian groups that it beggars belief.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achille_Lauro_hijacking#Interc...

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Re:How Putin’s Oligarchs Bought London by rnk on Friday March 18, 2022 @11:29PM (#30730692)

mole, a bad action is still a bad action. I'm in the us and I can admit that bombing endless wedding parties in Afghanistan in an attempt to kill terrorist is wrong. That doesn't excuse russia from bombing hospitals in Ukraine.

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Re:How Putin’s Oligarchs Bought London by unmole on Friday March 18, 2022 @11:34PM (#30730731)

> That doesn't excuse russia from bombing hospitals in Ukraine.

What made you think I suggested anything of the sort? I'm sorry but your whole comment is a non sequitur.

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Re:How Putin’s Oligarchs Bought London by amelius on Friday March 18, 2022 @10:25PM (#30730328)

Maldives might cooperate if US and EU force them to choose sides.

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Re:How Putin’s Oligarchs Bought London by thelittleone on Saturday March 19, 2022 @04:54AM (#30732256)

Yes agree it might be possible, and that's the point here.

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Re:How Putin’s Oligarchs Bought London by unmole on Friday March 18, 2022 @11:28PM (#30730685)

So, your takeaway from the whole Ukraine episode is that it's perfectly fine for large countries to invade small countries for utterly farcical reasons?

To restate your idea: You want to invade a country at peace, kill its citizens and overthrow its government just to inconvenience some rich thugs.

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Re:How Putin’s Oligarchs Bought London by newyankee on Saturday March 19, 2022 @12:20AM (#30730966)

and by that logic all poor countries with rampant corruption should have legal protection if they attack Switzerland or any tax havens which do not share data. Off course, not possible in reality due to difference in the countries' powers. Ukraine has galvanized the Western world unlike any other event prior to it, however it is mostly because it is immediate, has visual impact and the impacted are similar in appearances.

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Re:How Putin’s Oligarchs Bought London by thelittleone on Saturday March 19, 2022 @04:42AM (#30732210)

You refer to genocide as an "episode"?

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Re:How Putin’s Oligarchs Bought London by unmole on Saturday March 19, 2022 @04:49AM (#30732230)

episode: noun

an event or a group of events occurring as part of a sequence; an incident or period considered in isolation.

Is there something in the above definition that preculudes it from being used to refer to a genocide? And a more pertinent question: Was there a point to you comment apart from the feigned indignation?

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