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To: PGR88

Russia certainly likes to intervene there, and Jas throughout the Cold War, which is one reason they never get any peace :

“...Wagner forces aren’t in Sudan just to get paid. They are there to get gold from Sudan’s mining operations which can be used to help Russia fund the war in Ukraine.

Russia’s plundering of Sudan’s gold goes back to 2014 after the annexation of Crimea when sanctions were placed on Russia. Gold is obviously difficult to transport but it also can’t be stopped by sanctions. Best estimates are that Russia may have siphoned off as much as 32 tons of gold from Sudan in the past decade, with a value of about $1.9 billion....”


33 posted on 06/10/2024 3:27:48 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: piasa
Gold is obviously difficult to transport

400 oz gold bar
This 400 oz gold bar, at $2,000 per oz gold, is worth the $800,000 cash beside it. The gold bar is extremely heavy, weighing more than three full milk jugs.

36 posted on 06/10/2024 5:29:55 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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