NEW: Russian Oligarch Flight Activity Involving French Alsace (FA)
Six planes:
🚩 Abramovich (to FA 2/25)
🚩 Alekperov (to FA 2/3)
🚩 Prokhorov (in FA as of 2/17)
🚩 Rybolovlev (in FA through 2/17)
🚩 Usmanov (to FA 2/19)
🚩 Vekselberg (in FA as of 2/27) radarspots.com/oligarchs-flee…
NEW: Russian Oligarch Flight Activity Involving the Seychelles (SYC)/Maldives (MAL)
Four planes:
🚩 Abramov (to MAL 2/23, to SYC 2/24)
🚩 Mordashov (to SYC on 2/24 or 2/25)
🚩 Usmanov (in MAL early/mid-February)
{Deripaska helicopter may have left Netherlands for a yacht 2/23}
So aircraft owned by 8 of the top oligarchs in Russia are associated with—essentially—*2* locations over a period of a little over a week. Interesting.
Could mean nothing at all, but journalists have certainly wondered whether Putin’s oligarchs ever could/would plot a rebellion.
Needless to say, the simpler explanation is that a) the oligarchs were not on those planes themselves, or b) they were and they are simply fleeing Russia—perhaps permanently. We can’t know, and I don’t usually credit flight patterns for much in research. But this was interesting.
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The federal justice system can’t find even *one* man or woman to do the sort of prosecutorial work that state prosecutors gleefully do to incarcerate impoverished Black people many thousands of times a day. And as to Trump—a *career criminal*—this reluctance extends back decades.
I’d have to say that if there’s one thing I’m angry about every day of my life, it’s that as a former public defender I spent *years* watching poorer but better men than Trump—who’d committed fewer and less serious crimes than him—get incarcerated by the State. But Trump is free.
The biggest news of today—without question—is three European countries that had planned to send jets to Ukraine backtracking and now refusing to do so.
The reason there’s a 40-mile-long Russian convoy on the way to Kyiv is that Ukraine lacks sufficient air presence to strike it.
I don’t think anyone in the world can explain why European nations will send small arms to Ukraine but not planes. If the line of giving offensive military weapons to Ukraine has already been crossed—and apparently it has—why not send the weapons that are most desperately needed?
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The Trump-Putin axis launched—at the latest—in July 2015, when Trump assured Putin, speaking to a Russian spy on camera, that he didn’t care what Putin did in Ukraine and wouldn’t punish him for it, may cause WW3. Think of all the intersections between the men the GOP lied about.
Trump was in secret business negotiations with the Kremlin throughout his 2016 presidential campaign, even as Kremlin agents were writing his foreign policy—literally. Once he became POTUS he began working to aid Putin in bringing Ukraine to its knees financially and politically.
Trump selected as his campaign manager a man he *knew* had been on the Kremlin payroll for years and was paid *millions* annually. When Manafort came to him and said he'd work for "free", Trump knew exactly what was going on—he was getting a chance to get a Trump Tower in Moscow.
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