Punishing Russia With Sanctions
POSTED BY: THG
UPDATED: Tuesday, August 4, 2026 04:52
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Is this you laughing about gas prices then?
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Me: "Remember Covid?"
Useless Idiots: "What's Covid, durr? Russia, Ukraine, Putin, NATO *drool*. DURRRR!!!!"
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Italy seizes oligarchs' villas and yachts in initial swoop
ROME (Reuters) -Italian police have seized villas and yachts worth at least 140 million euros ($153 million) from four high-profile Russians who were placed on an EU sanctions list following Moscow's attack on Ukraine, sources said on Saturday.
A police source said a villa owned by billionaire businessman Alisher Usmanov on the Mediterranean island of Sardinia, and a villa on Lake Como owned by state TV host Vladimir Soloviev, had both been seized.
In addition, sources confirmed that yachts belonging to Russia's richest man, Alexey Mordashov, and Gennady Timchenko, who has close tied with Russian President Vladimir Putin, were impounded overnight in northern Italian ports. [L5N2V75YZ]
Russian oligarchs are believed to have bought numerous villas in choice Italian locations over the past 20 years and sources said more assets were expected to be seized in coming days as Western states implement massive sanctions to try to force Russia to withdraw from Ukraine.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/italy-seizes-oligarchs-villas-and
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The war footage is horrifying. It's extreme violence porn 24 hours a day. It's mind-numbing, unimaginable, and unbearable.
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The war footage is horrifying. It's extreme violence porn 24 hours a day. It's mind-numbing, unimaginable, and unbearable.
If you keep watching it, they'll keep creating more for you.
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Joining Apple and others, Microsoft stops sales in Russia amid invasion: 'We stand with Ukraine'
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/joining-apple-and-others-microsof
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Opposition leader Boris Nemtsov was shot dead yards from the Kremlin after writing an op-ed about the Russian incursion into Ukraine, published in September 2014 in Russian and Ukrainian, in which he said, among other things,
This is not our war, this is not your war, this is not the war of 20-year-old paratroopers sent out there. This is Vladimir Putin’s war… Through his bloody actions, though he is fomenting a fratricidal war, one can see his main goal – preservation of personal power and money at any cost….
Despite censorship, little by little the society started to understand that those in power are greedy and amoral people whose main goal is personal enrichment.
Ukraine became an example of an anti-criminal revolution, which overthrew a thieving president. Oh, so you dared to get out onto the street and throw off a president? Ukraine needs to be punished for it to make sure that no Russian would get these thoughts.
Moreover, Ukraine chose the European way, which implies the rule of law, democracy and change of power. Ukraine’s success on this way is a direct threat to Putin’s power because he chose the opposite course – a lifetime in power, filled with arbitrariness and corruption.
https://www.kyivpost.com/article/opinion/op-ed/why-does-putin-wage-war
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Joining Apple and others, Microsoft stops sales in Russia amid invasion: 'We stand with Ukraine'
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Only a matter of time before U.S. cloud companies shut off services in Russia
Now experts say U.S. tech giants could take it a step further and cut off access to Russian companies using their cloud computing services.
“We believe it’s a matter of when and not if this happens as Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Oracle head down this path,” Dan Ives, analyst with Wedbush, told GeekWire. “With the atrocities seen, tech firms have a clear moral choice as they pull the plug on Russia.”
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Don't worry about it Ted. They'll be coming to shut you down one day too.
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Expel Russia from the WTO
To have maximum impact, the rapidly emerging separate and individual actions by NATO countries to add trade sanctions to the accumulation of other economic sanctions punishing the government of Russia for its invasion of Ukraine must be broadened. They must include multilateral action to kick Russian President Vladimir Putin and his kleptocratic government out of the World Trade Organization (WTO).
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/expel-russia-from-the-wto/ar-AAUE
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Watching all this unfold one can't help wonder. How many decades will it take Russia to recover? The world is going to put Ukraine back on its feet rather quickly. But Russia, I believe business will not want to risk reinvesting in Russia.
Think about it. Why would people want to invest in a third world country? A country where no one has two nickels to rub together. We already know they don't so I'd say Russia is really really fucked.
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