[dennisw]

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The 192ft vessel, pictured, which boasts a freshwater swimming pool and an 'infinite' wine cellar, was boarded by officers from the National Crime Agency hours before it was due to leave Canary Wharf, in east London

[blackdog]

As he should get it back. That was wrong in the first place.

[Rurudyne]

Not at war with Russia but still seizing the property of its citizens.

[forgotten man]

Where is the helicopter? I would never buy a mega yeacht without a helicopter on board.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Good.

You can’t just seize property without due process.

[escapefromboston]

It shouldn’t be the business of a country just to steal stuff from people they just dislike or come from countries they dislike. It makes investing in your country seem less secure
If anything they could just tell them to leave

[cpdiii]

This is a bad precedent. Sergei Georgievich Naumenko is probably a very bad man, but it is his vessel. Using the same logic what if courts decide the enemies of the left are bad men and start seizing their property? They will probably start with Trump and Elon Musk.

[dljordan]

I've often thought that if I were rich and disposed to have a yacht that I would buy a mothballed USN destroyer and refurbish it.

[Kazan]

Of course, Denny hates, hates, hates Russians so legalizing theft if acceptable to him.

Well, it isn't acceptable to the 80% of the world outside of the West. And, that is leading to de-dollarization that going to negatively impact Main Street Americans.

[Kazan]

And, what Denny and his fellow neocon operatives are leaving out is that the same thing the "liberal world order" is going to Russian oligarchs is what they are doing to farmers in the Netherlands -- stealing from them.

Ukraine has become totalitarian hellhole. What's going on there is what the same people running this war want to implement in this country.

[familyop]

Give it to Zelensky. Maybe some of his men can turn it into a missile destroyer. ;)

[Kazan]

CIA LIES AND UKRAINE

Ukraine is working hard to put a brave, heroic face on a bad situation. While the battle over Bakhmut continues to dominate the attention of Western pundits and politicians, the war in Ukraine is raging in other locations, including Zaporozhye, Maryinka, Avdyevka, Petrovskoye and dozens of other cities and hamlets. Russia has ample supplies of men, tanks and ammunition. Ukraine does not. Russia is choosing to fight a war of attrition rather than large scale maneuver. I realize this is frustrating for those arm-chair generals longing for a General Patton to break out of hedge row country and go scampering across France. Apart from the whining complaints from Prigozhin, there is no sign of panic, fear or frustration on the Russian side. The essential question remains — how long can Ukraine hold out?

Ukraine SitRep: Delayed Counteroffensive, Russian Defense Lines, Weapon Efficiency

Ukraine does not have the personnel to sustain a longer war. Nor does the 'west' have any spare weapons that could give the Ukraine a 'decisive advantage'.