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Feb 27 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Another update for #YachtWatch fans:

SOLARIS is still in Barcelona. I went down to the port today. No movement. Just a giant fucking boat at the dock in the shipyard. It's hard to capture the size, but this thing is massive. 1/
Reminder: SOLARIS is 140m (461 ft.) long. So, longer than a football field. But who's measuring? (the oligarchs are definitely measuring). 2/
Here's one more from the back.

My precious is still here. 3/
But we did lose one yesterday. See this thread for the fleeing of Galactica Super Nova (stupid fucking name). #YachtWatch 4/

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Feb 27
Hey, #YachtWatch fans! I've got a "how it started, how it's going" for you.

Remember Galactica Super Nova (still a stupid fucking name), believed to be owned by Russian oligarch Vagit Alekperov, president of Lukoil?

Welp... She's gone. 1/
Looks like she left Barcelona yesterday. She is believed to be heading to Montenegro. Notably, Montenegro is not a member of the EU. Montenegro is also on the way to the Bosphorus and the Black Sea. Just saying. 2/
Montenegro recently built a new port to attract mega yachts.

Montenegro might want to keep in mind, however, that its accession to the EU is currently scheduled for 2025. Just saying. 3/
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Feb 24
Hey @GOP: The reason Putin did not invade Ukraine while Trump was president was because he didn't have to. Trump was ready to hand Ukraine over to him on a silver platter, which would have saved Putin a lot of money and bloodshed. 1/
Why go to war when the US president will help achieve your goal without it? Remember that Konstantin Kilimnik, a Russian intel agent, worked directly with Paul Manafort, Trump's campaign manager. Kilimnik handed him a Ukraine Peace Plan with plans to install a pro-Russia gov. 2/
The disinformation campaign to oust Ambassador Yovanovich from Kyiv, to push the nonsense that Burisma and Hunter Biden had gotten up to no good, the extortion attempt on Zelensky to feed that narrative and open an investigation against Biden or no weapons for Ukraine... 3/
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Feb 22
Oligarch yacht fans: I've got a story for you!

As many of you know, I have designated myself The Yacht Watcher and have done some Twitter tours of the mega yachts of oligarchs and other billionaires in Barcelona's port. 1/
I have made it my life's mission to be there when Roman Abramovich's yacht MY SOLARIS gets seized by Spanish authorities. 2/
A little background on MY SOLARIS. This wee little dinghy is 140m (461 ft) in length. That's actually pretty small as mega yachts go. For comparison, Abramovich's OTHER mega yacht [insert eye roll gif], ECLIPSE, is 162.5m (533 ft). 3/
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Feb 21
I’m not an expert in Putin psychology, but I’m well versed in recent Russian influence operations, and none of those were/are done in a vacuum. My guess is those successes are playing into his calculus and he truly believes the West is so polarized and corrupt, he will win 1/
He has made Russia a major factor in European energy security. He has bought (coerced?) a lot of goodwill from many European and US politicians and media influencers. In fact, many of our own politicians and “media” companies learned tactics from watching Russia 2/
So far, we’ve seen incredible unity from the West. Will it hold once this thing kicks into high gear? Will Johnson really be able to withstand the blowback once London (already reeling from Brexit) loses money and business due to sanctions? 3/
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Feb 11
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Russia has been providing indirect support to right-wing groups in the US. Those of us who follow this long suspected it. I also have a hunch we will eventually uncover more direct connections. See next tweet 1/
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.@john_sipher, @AshaRangappa_, and I wrote about this way back before the 2020 election, with some specific examples of Russia providing material support to right-wing groups in Europe. Why wouldn't they attempt the same thing in the US? 2/
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Destabilize from within. That's the mantra. 3/
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Jan 14
For anyone who has followed my tours of Barcelona’s port, here’s an interesting article about the city trying to attract even more billionaires and their yachts. nytimes.com/2022/01/10/bus…
Super fun when we combine this with @navalny's calls to stop allowing Russia's billionaires to use the West as their playground. We're shooting ourselves in the foot.
theguardian.com/world/2020/nov…
I took this panorama shot of the Bcn port today. Off the top of my head, I spot four Russian superyachts. 1. Solaris (Abramovich) 2. Galactica Super Nova (Vagit Alekperov) 3. Aurora (Andrey Molchanov) 4. Sea Rhapsody (Andrey Kostin) Image
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