Any one else find the paid trolls poor attempt to deflect from Deripaska getting raided kinda pathetic?
Almost like he wants to get the thread locked by taking it totally off topic,wonder why that is...
Yeah he could just be a run of the mill financial criminal. Which is, again, worth investigating and prosecuting.
My view is of Deripaska is that he’s no different than assholes like Martin Shrekeli. Both indulged in publicly stupid behaviour which then sheds some light on their actual criminal behaviour.
Can't help but notice that there is only like 5 posts of actual substance on here (Zero of which is mine) and the rest is absolute garbage.
Must be something important for Russian disinformation to kick in half way into page 1 and continue to destroy the thread at page 5.
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I haven't been paying attention to the details, but I did see a story saying that Moscow Mitch should be worried about these developments, which I though was odd. Found this, source is odd, but the story is reprinted so....
I think this officially makes the 6th post of substance on this thread.
I REALLY hope this tracks back to Moscow Mitch The Bitch. If him and Trump are both caught up in this, along with all the other stuff that comes out, that potentially taints every single judicial nomination they made as being a conflict of interest with a party intent on harming us as a nation.
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I have noticed that too.
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He is already sanctioned over it. Does new administration needs new reasons for another round?
He seems to be relatively more competent on business side.My view is of Deripaska is that he’s no different than assholes like Martin Shrekeli. Both indulged in publicly stupid behaviour which then sheds some light on their actual criminal behaviour.
As for "criminal behavior" i don't think any Russian billionaires are free from such connections.
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How exactly do you/they estimate significance?
True that HE wouldn't leave a trail, but that doesn't mean Oleg didn't. Or for all we know is that Mitch might have been working with them for years longer than they have been in office.
Also, how many times have the authorities had actual "Probable Cause" to actually look into McConnell in depth?
McConnell has zero regard for this nation or its best interests which he has put on display many times when he actively attempts to hurt it while blaming others. Being funded by Russia and his ties to his millionaire Japanese in-laws could put much of that into perspective.
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There is, of course, plenty of hard evidence in my shower.
By the way, quite recently indeed even Deripaska is trying to convince the world this isn't about the election. So...yeah, he knows it is, and he knows he's in trouble.
Interesting take.
I got to note though that lifting of sanctions was necessary as they actively harmed US and EU interests in related markets:
The sanctions were initially imposed in April, but they roiled global metals markets, unnerving businesses in the United States and Europe; Rusal is one of the world's largest aluminum producers.
Reuters:
The aluminium price has experienced unprecedented turbulence. The raw material supply chain has teetered on the edge of collapse. And the tremors have raced down the value chain through major automakers as far as original equipment suppliers.
Shocked by how its precision strike on Deripaska has ruptured the global aluminium market in the space of just two weeks, the U.S. Administration has rapidly rowed back.
By extending the sanctions deadline to Oct. 23, 2018, the Treasury Department has given Rusal and the aluminium market some breathing space.
Causing huge supply problems just to get shot at one billionaire isn't often worth it.
Complaining? Where?
US tries to get people adjacent to opposing regimes. Deripaska without any doubt is one of those.
The problem for US is that simply sanctioning him into non-existence as billionaire will mean world-wide crisis in aluminium - or US basically declaring they'll take over any enterprise no matter where it happens to operate in the world if they feel like it... which has other second-order problems.
All easy targets had long been hit; dislodging Russian oligarchs from the world is going to be hard work, and isn't necessarily worth the cost - especially with energy crisis already in plain view.
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The logic of "if someone else is wrong i must be right" is impeccable /s
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