Documents show Putin’s order to move his $100 million superyacht before Ukraine invasion

The Guardian ^ | 29th august 2023 | Rupert Neate

[Gaffer]

Doesn’t sound much different than Biden to me.

[Gaffer]

John (I was in Viet Nam) Kerry pulled the same trick to avoid high property taxes. Moved his yacht from berthing in one state to another, IIRC.

[ansel12]

Ignorance is bliss they say.

[Gaffer]

There’s no difference, really. Only the level of corruption. That’s not ‘ignorance;’ it is lack of proof. Same thing goes for Zelensky or most any other dominant head official.

[ansel12]

What a childish defense you offer for the subject of this thread, why you even want to is a mystery.

[JonPreston]

No answer? You're 800 miles away from the front, you claim Poland is in danger of invasion, yet you spend your day on an American forum with an average age of 70 y/o cheering for a European war that no one here wants.

Polish Coward.

[Cronos]

I don’t have Ukrainian citizenship, so nope, I ain’t going to fight you Russians in Ukraine.

Neither are American soldiers going to do that.

However if you Russians tried to invade Poland, I’d join up. And no, Poland isn’t in danger of invasion by you Russians - you are getting your butts kicked by the Ukrainians

But you, Why don’t you go and fight for Putin? Haven’t you got your recruitment call up yet?

Or are those in St. Petersburg exempt?

[Cronos]

JonPreston = Ivan from St. Petersburg?

How come the Russian draft hasn’t reached you yet?

[Kazan]

Ukraine's Western Sponsors Running Out of Ammo & Out of Time

Aug 31, 2023<

Update on the conflict in Ukraine for August 31, 2023:

- The Western media is trying to spin Ukrainian gains within the security or “gray zone” ahead of Russia’s first of several defense lines as a “turning point” in the offensive;

- Ukraine’s offensive potential has been exhausted with the West struggling to find arms and ammunition to replace Ukrainian losses;

- The West is even struggling to pull together large numbers of antiquated and inappropriate equipment like the post-WW2 Leopard 1 tank;

- Meanwhile Ukraine continues conducting drone strikes in Russia, achieving questionable PR value and little else;

- A recent Ukrainian drone strike on an airport hosting Il-76 strategic airlift aircraft damaged 2. To put that in context, Russia operates over 100 of these aircraft and has production capacity to build up to 12 annually;

- Ukraine’s sponsors are unable to sustain the conflict “for as long as it takes,” and only for as long as they have arms and ammunition to supply Ukraine in sufficient quantities;

[Gaffer]

You’re complete nonsense

[JonPreston]

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Have lived in Poland since 2010 - for the first 10 years in Warsaw, then moved to Podkarpackie - the south-east corner - in 2021. Yeah, that was great timing :)

However it's safe here - the war is 800 miles away. Got my citizenship a few years ago (the trickiest part was learning the language) - and it is a lovely place to stay

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[Cronos]

Nah, a coward is a Russian in St. Petersburg who isn’t going to fight for Putin’s “special operation” in Ukraine.

How is the weather in St. Petersburg for you?

[Cronos]

14th Dec 2021 https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4021188/posts?page=18#18
There is zero reason to believe Russia is going to invade any nation and take it over against its wil

13th Jan 2022 https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4029166/posts?page=8#8
Nonsense. There is no evidence Putin has any plans to invade and takeover countries against their will.

21st Jan 2022 https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4031420/posts?page=48#48
The claim Russia is going to invade Ukraine has been nothing but propaganda from the start.

21st Jan 2022 https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4031420/posts?page=49#49
Russia is not going to wage a brutal war with Ukraine. It’s been a lie from the start

24th Jan 2022 https://freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/4032190/posts?page=28#28
Putin is assuring us he has no further territorial ambitions in Europe beyond this one little slice of Ukraine heavily populated by Russians
I have no doubt that’s true. There is no way Putin wants to fight a bloody war with Ukraine. He’d perfectly happy with water flow being restored to Crimea and sanctions to be removed from the Nord 2 pipeline.

28th Jan 2022 https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4033434/posts?page=22#22
The Russian invasion narrative is as fake as the Russian collusion narrative was

4th Feb 2022 https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4035208/posts?page=58#58
The Russian invasion narrative is as fake as the Russian collusion narrative was

19th Feb 2022 https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4039582/posts?page=112#112
You think Russia wants to invade nations in Eastern Europe and take them over against their will?

Why would he want to fight a series of bloody wars when Russia already has a declining population? Why would anyone think younger Russians, who are already complaining about mandatory military service, tolerate that? Why would he risk doing that and losing the ability to sell oil to Germany through the Nord 2 pipeline.

These kind of comments are ignorant. It’s 2022, not 1982.

19th Feb 2022 https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4039720/posts?page=29#29
So, given that, why would anyone in their right mind believe that Putin wants to start wars in Eastern Europe and take countries over against their will as millions of young Russians died in war?

22nd Feb https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4040557/posts?page=31#31
I’d rather see Russia annex Ukraine (which is has no desire to do) than see $5 a gallon gasoline.

7th Jan 2022 https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4027371/posts?page=65#65
I wish the Russians would have come in to rid the nation of the rioters in 2020.

28 Dec 2021 https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4023391/posts?page=94#94
But, Russia and Putin are right-wing and with a greater Christian influence

28 Dec 2021 https://freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/4024707/posts?page=19#19
Russia is absolutely as free as the US and, freer, in many ways.

26 Dec 2021 https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4023818/posts?page=70#70
stop pretending we’re any freer than Russia

22nd Jan 2022 https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4031617/posts?page=67#67
I pay $4 for an IPTV that streams from Russia

28th Jan 2022 https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4033214/posts?page=21#21
I’d put up a welcome sign if Russia wants to invade the US

27th Feb 2022 https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4041997/posts?page=41#41
President Putin picked up his chips, completely cleaning our President out. Vladimir got everything he really wanted. He went all in. Consider what he has accomplished. Putin had already absorbed Georgia and Crimea back into Mother Russia. Soon he will complete the annexation of those Russian-leaning eastern provinces and maybe the whole of Ukraine.

20th July 2022 https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4079519/posts?page=96#96
Only someone completely ignorant of what is going on can’t find a daily map of the areas Russia controls and see how much ground the Russians have been gaining week by week.

12th October 2022 https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4099922/posts?page=24#24
EVERYTHING changes in 3 weeks as Putin amasses biggest force yet

14th October 2022 https://freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/4100455/posts?page=3#3
Russian OWNS the air space has conclusively proven Ukraine’s air defense is non-existent this week.

26th October 2022 https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4103469/posts?page=23#23
It’s now well known that a newly-unified, Russian-Belarussian command is planning a winter offensive….. …..a “second front” against unprepared, largely unguarded areas in the Ukraine’s north. There may be some diversionary raids, but it’s understood that the most likely axis of advance is near the Polish border, south to Lutsk and then potentially to Lvov….. …..cutting off the main supply lines into the Ukraine….. …..without which all organized resistance by Ukrainian forces employing large modern weapons, would cease totally in as little as six weeks.

2nd November 2022 https://freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/4105258/posts?page=26#26
Ukraine’s military position will continue to erode in the coming weeks

4th November 2022 https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4106075/posts?page=24#24
Russia will control Kherson both next week and for as long as any of us are alive.

8th November 2022 https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4107078/posts?page=38#38
The Ukrainian military has for weeks tried probing attacks in the Kherson region. These had no significant results while the attacking units had high losses.
...Ukraine has for weeks had no success on the battle field.
..The campaign is misleading. Ukraine is losing the war badly

12th November 2022 https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4108353/posts?page=27#27
“EVERYTHING changes in 4 weeks; this is Putin’s calm before the storm | Redacted with Clayton Morris
The ground in Ukraine will likely freeze in the next 4-7 weeks. When that happens, we will see everything change in Ukraine.”

you have been consistently wrong for nearly 2 years now.

[JonPreston]

Polish Coward

"Have lived in Poland since 2010 - for the first 10 years in Warsaw, then moved to Podkarpackie - the south-east corner - in 2021.

However it's safe here - the war is 800 miles away."

[Cronos]

Nice try. As I said m I am not a Ukrainian citizen, so no, I’m not enlisting there. If you Russians try to come here then I will.

Why aren’t you fighting for Putin? Your enlistment papere were paused for being part of the cyber trolls inSt Petersburg?

[JonPreston]

Too cowardly to fight the Russian hordes?

You remind me of Bruce Ismay on the Titanic. He dressed as a woman rather than stand with the men