Punishing Russia With Sanctions
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UPDATED: Tuesday, August 4, 2026 04:52
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Oligarchs and other wealthy Russians have stashed up to $214 billion in secretive Swiss bank accounts, leading trade group reveals
Swiss banks hold as much as $214 billion in Russian money, the top Swiss banking association said. The disclosure to Reuters, by the Swiss Bankers Association, is unusual given Swiss banking secrecy.
Switzerland recently departed from its historically neutral status to sanction Russia over Ukraine. Who's going to rebuild Russia?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/oligarchs-and-other-wealthy-ru
ssians-have-stashed-up-to-214-billion-in-secretive-swiss-bank-accounts-leading-trade-group-reveals/ar-AAVdwMY?ocid=msedgntp
Fan fucking tastic. They didn't see this coming when they invaded. We'll use it in the rebuilding of Ukraine.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
THUGR believes the M$M bc it tells him what he wants to hear. "Critical thinking" is a foreign concept.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
I'm no longer wondering how long Ukraine can hold out because it is obvious, they are going to win. No, now I am wondering how long Putin will survive. I told you so signym.
tick tock
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You sound so sure of yourself, Ted.
Meanwhile, in the Real World, there's scant evidence that a war is even going on.
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Me: "Remember Covid?"
Useless Idiots: "What's Covid, durr? Russia, Ukraine, Putin, NATO *drool*. DURRRR!!!!"
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EU Officials Mull Using Sanctioned Russians’ Assets for Ukraine
(Bloomberg) -- European Union officials are discussing the possibility of using the assets of sanctioned Russian tycoons to help fund Ukraine’s war recovery efforts, according to three people familiar with the matter.
Told you so Signym. I called it.
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Quote:More than two dozen Senate Republicans demand Biden do more for Ukraine after voting against doing more for Ukraine
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
You sound so sure of yourself, Ted.
Meanwhile, in the Real World, there's scant evidence that a war is even going on.
More than two dozen Senate Republicans are demanding that President Biden do more to aid war-torn Ukraine and arm its forces against Russia’s brutal assault, after voting last week against $13.6 billion in military and humanitarian assistance for Ukraine.
Consider Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), who heard Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s emotional plea in a virtual address to Congress on Wednesday for more weapons and a no-fly zone over Ukraine:
“President Biden needs to make a decision TODAY: either give Ukraine access to the planes and antiaircraft defense systems it needs to defend itself, or enforce a no-fly zone to close Ukrainian skies to Russian attacks,” Scott said in a statement. “If President Biden does not do this NOW, President Biden will show himself to be absolutely heartless and ignorant of the deaths of innocent Ukrainian children and families.”
Last week, Scott was one of 31 Republicans to vote against.
More at https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/17/republicans-ukraine
-aid-vote/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Originally posted by second:Quote:More than two dozen Senate Republicans demand Biden do more for Ukraine after voting against doing more for Ukraine
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
You sound so sure of yourself, Ted.
Meanwhile, in the Real World, there's scant evidence that a war is even going on.
More than two dozen Senate Republicans are demanding that President Biden do more to aid war-torn Ukraine and arm its forces against Russia’s brutal assault, after voting last week against $13.6 billion in military and humanitarian assistance for Ukraine.
That's evidence of Nothing.
Fuck those lying Republicans.
I've been telling you for YEARS that I'm not a Republican.
Stick around long enough and you're going to learn two things:
1. When the social pendulum swings back to the center and starts making its wild ride up the Right side, I'm going to have a LOT to say about it.
2. You'll get to see how somebody with an actual cornerstone in their ideological beliefs doesn't waver an inch when the winds of change are upon them.
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Me: "Remember Covid?"
Useless Idiots: "What's Covid, durr? Russia, Ukraine, Putin, NATO *drool*. DURRRR!!!!"
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Quote:If the MSM is for President Zelenskyy, you gotta be against. If the MSM is against Trump, you gotta be for. See the pattern?
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
That's evidence of Nothing.
Fuck those lying Republicans.
I've been telling you for YEARS that I'm not a Republican.
Stick around long enough and you're going to learn two things:
1. When the social pendulum swings back to the center and starts making its wild ride up the Right side, I'm going to have a LOT to say about it.
2. You'll get to see how somebody with an actual cornerstone in their ideological beliefs doesn't waver an inch when the winds of change are upon them.
6ix, you are a contrarian. Neither Democrat nor Republican. You have various antipathies. What’s a key reason why 6ix likes Trump? Because the mainstream media doesn’t. When would 6ix boo Trump? When he conforms to what the establishment wants, including by getting a COVID-vaccine booster.
If you spend any time watching Tucker Carlson or following the rhetoric of popular far-right voices, such as Candace Owens or Marjorie Taylor Greene, you’ll see a consistent theme — they’ll find what they call “the narrative” (another word for the perceived conventional wisdom in the media or in the political establishment) and simply argue the opposite.
We saw the pattern throughout the pandemic. “The narrative” was that COVID was serious, and so right-wing figures minimized the virus, claiming that it was like the common cold, or that it was merely the flu, or that it would claim only 500 or 5,000 lives.
“The narrative” claimed that masks could help limit the spread of the disease, so far-right figures mocked masks, sometimes even referring to them as “face diapers.”
Then as the narrative moved to full-throated support for vaccines, the same cohort held back. If “they” want me to take a vaccine, then something must be wrong.
Don’t mistake contrarianism for critical thinking. A true critical thinker holds all sides accountable for their mistakes. Those who underplayed the COVID threat would be rejected just as decisively (if not more, given the staggering toll in lives) as those who overplayed it. Those who said there were no contacts between Russians and the Trump campaign would be rejected just as decisively as those who said there was active collusion with the Russian government.
The critical thinker is universally skeptical. The contrarian commits two errors — he’s both excessively cynical and excessively credulous. He’s too quick to disbelieve one side and too quick to believe the opposite. For example, he’ll reject an avalanche of evidence of the safety and effectiveness of a vaccine while jumping quickly on fad treatments, like hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin. He’ll reject overwhelming proof that the January 6 insurrection was a Trumpist attack on the Capitol and respond immediately to speculation that the FBI or antifa instigated the riot.
The same people who were catastrophically wrong about the severity of COVID or the effectiveness of vaccines continue to enjoy an audience from the same people who demand rigorous and merciless accountability from their political opponents.
The pattern holds true across multiple fronts. The contrarians still love the voices who spread absurd misinformation about the 2020 election, in part because the rest of the media rejects them. And what does the Russian invasion teach us about the right? It’s that a similar percentage will resist “the narrative” even when the reality and the morality of the moment could not be more clear.
More at https://newsletters.theatlantic.com/the-third-rail/6234aa276c908600205
16e75/republican-conspiracy-russia-ukraine/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Your opinion changes every five minutes, Second. You have no ideological cornerstone and nothing but a million little contradictory flickers of ideas flitting in and out of existence inside that little brain of yours like fireflies that are brought out when you want to make an argument, and then blinked right back out of existence and forgotten about just in time to make your next hypocritical argument in another thread.
Every single post post you have ever made in these boards directly contradicts another post you've made. Some of them do it mere moments apart from each other.
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Me: "Remember Covid?"
Useless Idiots: "What's Covid, durr? Russia, Ukraine, Putin, NATO *drool*. DURRRR!!!!"
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Quote:6ix, you are like some random stranger in an elevator with me saying, "First you pushed the up button, second. The next time I see you, you pushed the down button. You are totally inconsistent." 6ix, you are definitely a contrarian and I am getting off this elevator with you and out of the building.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Your opinion changes every five minutes, Second. You have no ideological cornerstone and nothing but a million little contradictory flickers of ideas flitting in and out of existence inside that little brain of yours like fireflies that are brought out when you want to make an argument, and then blinked right back out of existence and forgotten about just in time to make your next hypocritical argument in another thread.
Every single post post you have ever made in these boards directly contradicts another post you've made. Some of them do it mere moments apart from each other.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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