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1 posted on 07/03/2026 2:43:28 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

The rona got him. It’s only a matter of time.


2 posted on 07/03/2026 2:45:39 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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Putin’s £100m yacht flees to Arctic
Fri, July 3, 2026 at 12:17 PM EDT
https://www.yahoo.com/news/world/articles/putin-100m-yacht-flees-arctic-161731229.html

A £100m super-yacht believed to be owned by Vladimir Putin is fleeing Europe to avoid Ukrainian drone attacks.

The 82m Graceful is traversing the coast of Norway on course to reach the northern Russian port of Murmansk in the coming days, according to maritime intelligence data and satellite imagery analyzed by The Telegraph.

It is sailing under the escort of two Russian naval vessels and under the watchful eye of Nato.

The yacht has been pictured sailing with anti-drone nets covering its deck.

It is being shadowed by a heavily armed Russian I-class destroyer, the Severomorsk, as well as a 7,500-ton Russian salvage and patrol ship, the Voevoda, in the latest demonstration of Putin’s growing paranoia.

The convoy is being monitored by Nato, while German and Danish Navy patrol ships shadowed the vessels on their voyage through the Baltic, according to a senior Nato source.

Putin is understood to have taken numerous trips aboard the yacht, including a 2021 voyage in the Black Sea with Alexander Lukashenko, the president of Belarus, according to US government filings.

The vessel is equipped with both saltwater and freshwater pools, a helipad, gym, and secure government communications systems.

It was relocated from the Blohm & Voss shipyard in Hamburg, Germany, to the Russian shipping enclave of Kaliningrad 17 days before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
The luxury yacht has been pictured sailing with anti-drone nets covering its deck
The luxury yacht reportedly has anti-drone nets covering its deck - Frank Behling/Kieler Nachrichten

Four months later, the US designated the yacht as blocked property under sanctions, forcing the vessel to rename itself the Kosatka, meaning “Killer Whale” in Russian.


3 posted on 07/03/2026 2:50:29 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com (Please pray for God 's intervention to stop Putin's invasion of Ukraine 🇺🇸 )
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

I think a 3 week war that turned into a three year war was enough to remove him. Somebody might have a good idea of the timing, however.


4 posted on 07/03/2026 2:50:45 PM PDT by Jonty30 (Im so glad I bought bitcoin at $120,000. I wouldnt have have known how else to spend $58000)
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

They win the bet even if he just steps down and someone else of a similar mind takes over?


6 posted on 07/03/2026 2:53:22 PM PDT by Mount Athos
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

I’ve been hearing that ‘the walls are closing in’ on either Putin or Zelensky since the beginning of the war.
Not that I don’t want the walls to close in on one or the other just to end the carnage of their citizens.

The people of Russia and Ukraine don’t have much input in how they are utilized right now. The only way they can take control is to flee their homeland, hope they don’t get caught, hope their families are not revenge/punished in the style of North Korea.


9 posted on 07/03/2026 3:03:46 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

You’re Back! with your fever dreams ..


11 posted on 07/03/2026 3:18:09 PM PDT by A strike (fvckMI6. Drool Britannia. & No more Dots)
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

LOL. Idiocy knows no bounds.


12 posted on 07/03/2026 3:23:58 PM PDT by ChuckHam
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13 posted on 07/03/2026 3:35:44 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (🦅 MAGADONIAN ⚔️ LIF)
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Some Russians are turning on Putin as drones hit Moscow.

For the past several decades, "turning on Putin" is a great way to shorten one's lifespan.

Whether in Moscow or London, if Putin objects to your continued existence, I dab of polonium, or just a simple bullet, might be in your future.

20 posted on 07/03/2026 3:58:39 PM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try. )
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

In before any more pro-Russian posters spam the threads about someone spamming the threads.


22 posted on 07/03/2026 4:02:21 PM PDT by Engraved-on-His-hands (If someone says that there are no absolutes, ask them if they are absolutely sure.)
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

“Kid, we all got it comin’.”


26 posted on 07/03/2026 4:38:00 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

But you’re right that some strange bets have paid out in the not-to-distant past.


27 posted on 07/03/2026 4:41:13 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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His girlfriend and four of his children live in Lugano Switzerland.


32 posted on 07/03/2026 5:16:45 PM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings )
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

Putin is a dead man walking. He can’t quit his attempt to take Ukraine, and may lose Crimea. He’s not going to step down; and at some point, the oligarchs are going to take him out. They are not going to just give Putin their assets for his war he cannot win.


33 posted on 07/03/2026 5:33:34 PM PDT by WASCWatch ( WASC)
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

Putin is getting to soft in his old age. Time for a new younger hardliner to nuke Europe like the old Putin would have.


38 posted on 07/04/2026 4:12:00 AM PDT by McGruff
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

Putin the clown is going down. Russians are sick n tired of this paranoid lunatic madman.


54 posted on 07/05/2026 1:44:47 PM PDT by dennisw (Qatarlson the Insufferable blowhard -There is no limit to human stupidity. |||||||||||||||||||||||||)
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