Red Mosquito

So who’s doing this? One theory is it’s gangs within Russia unhappy with Putin.
I like that theory.

dimejinky99 wrote:Great. Just great.

I'm sorry but lmfao

People are protesting in Moscow and St Petersburg. They’re braver than me. Police are out in force arresting them.

Lots of good people in Russia, always has been. But not easy to be against the government there.

More than a thousand protesters arrested in Russia so far.

Anders wrote:More than a thousand protesters arrested in Russia so far.

He’s implementing a blanket censorship on all foreign media reports and journalists and activists being arrested too.
Rumour is he’s lost his mind and even the inside crew/ oligarchs are stepping away from him.
Can’t imagine why.

tragabigzanda wrote:Anybody seen some sort of economic impact calculation on the sanctions? And/or a quantitative measurement of what Russia will gain by controlling Ukraine?

Obviously the sanctions are a joke, but I'm curious what the financial gap might be between the posturing and reality.

Can only speak for Ireland and what’s happening here. But there’s a large number of their brass plate / shell companies based in our international financial services Center and something like 29 times in our GDP has been funnelled through the IFSC in ten years. Hundreds of billions.
That whole place is a money laundromat but this revelation was eye watering. It’ll hit him and his cronies hard when we close them out.

tragabigzanda wrote:

dimejinky99 wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:Anybody seen some sort of economic impact calculation on the sanctions? And/or a quantitative measurement of what Russia will gain by controlling Ukraine?

Obviously the sanctions are a joke, but I'm curious what the financial gap might be between the posturing and reality.

Can only speak for Ireland and what’s happening here. But there’s a large number of their brass plate / shell companies based in our international financial services Center and something like 29 times in our GDP has been funnelled through the IFSC in ten years. Hundreds of billions.
That whole place is a money laundromat but this revelation was eye watering. It’ll hit him and his cronies hard when we close them out.

To clarify, you're saying Putin has been laundering a lot of money through the IFSC and that the sanctions are targeting this?

And what’s the end goal? Will this actually impact their military operations at some point?

tragabigzanda wrote:

Strat wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

dimejinky99 wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:Anybody seen some sort of economic impact calculation on the sanctions? And/or a quantitative measurement of what Russia will gain by controlling Ukraine?

Obviously the sanctions are a joke, but I'm curious what the financial gap might be between the posturing and reality.

Can only speak for Ireland and what’s happening here. But there’s a large number of their brass plate / shell companies based in our international financial services Center and something like 29 times in our GDP has been funnelled through the IFSC in ten years. Hundreds of billions.
That whole place is a money laundromat but this revelation was eye watering. It’ll hit him and his cronies hard when we close them out.

To clarify, you're saying Putin has been laundering a lot of money through the IFSC and that the sanctions are targeting this?

And what’s the end goal? Will this actually impact their military operations at some point?

Right. I'm so far from an expert on this, just gathering headlines on the fly, but my hunch is that "financial losses to oligarchs from sanctions < financial gains for oligarchs from fossil fuel and geopolitical strength in Ukraine." Just want someone smarter than me to tell me why that's a wrong assumption to make.

I just want someone to tell me the chinamen and Russians won’t be landing on American soil at some point Thanks

Maybe the earth will kill us all first.

Strat wrote:Maybe the earth will kill us all first.

We’ll Red Dawn that shit if they do

Wolverines!!!!

In related news I miss Patrick Swayze he’d know what to do.

tragabigzanda wrote:

dimejinky99 wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:Anybody seen some sort of economic impact calculation on the sanctions? And/or a quantitative measurement of what Russia will gain by controlling Ukraine?

Obviously the sanctions are a joke, but I'm curious what the financial gap might be between the posturing and reality.

Can only speak for Ireland and what’s happening here. But there’s a large number of their brass plate / shell companies based in our international financial services Center and something like 29 times in our GDP has been funnelled through the IFSC in ten years. Hundreds of billions.
That whole place is a money laundromat but this revelation was eye watering. It’ll hit him and his cronies hard when we close them out.

To clarify, you're saying Putin has been laundering a lot of money through the IFSC and that the sanctions are targeting this?

That’s what our Pm said today. And many others.

Germany holding out from kicking them off that sprint bank transfer system.

That explains all Russia’s government sites going down I guess

Why can’t they stop the Russians borrowing?

Europe are being really touchy feely about not affecting Russian citizens only the government.

Maybe hit the countries ability to borrow?

Although all of this leads to Putin smashing the big red button it just depends when