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[–] hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 3 hours ago

Maybe rename it to Injustice Department.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 15 points 4 hours ago

Kremlin asset.

Anyone thinking this is done for the good of the USA should really stop doing drugs

[–] sensiblepuffin@lemmy.funami.tech 4 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

I wonder how much the program actually seized. Imagine if we took all that money and used it to help people.

Just kidding, we probably built like 2 F-35s.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

$300 billion in Russian assets between the U.S. and Europe. Most is in Europe of course, as most yaughts don't sail across the Atlantic and sit

[–] Revonult@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Not sure if same program but didn't we send alot of money to Ukrane that was seized Russian funds?

[–] sensiblepuffin@lemmy.funami.tech 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Looks like yes - the G7 seized about 325B and the interest yielded was the basis for the 20B sent to Ukraine. I fear that now, it'll just get returned to their owners.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c047zrzr2xro

[–] ubergeek@lemmy.today 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

This is one of the main goals, hidden by the flood of everything else.

Well it was the attorney generals first day. And she ordered this and to disband the team that looks into Russian election interference in the u.s.

[–] PorradaVFR@lemmy.world 33 points 12 hours ago

…and people kept saying he was compromised by Russia.

How silly!

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 24 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Just as Putin commanded him to do. Trump is a Kremlin asset.

[–] al256@providence.root.sx 3 points 4 hours ago

Always has been.

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 10 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I studied the cold war in school; I could have never imagined that one day the US would be controlled by Russia, but here we are.

[–] demonsword@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Russo-American Mercantile

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 86 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

if you need any more evidence that he's a Russian asset, you're a willful idiot.

[–] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 21 points 17 hours ago

It’s an active choice at this point.

Take everything from me Daddy, just tell me who got hurt. No, don’t right it down, I never learnt.

[–] mystik@lemmy.world 100 points 20 hours ago

Oh, Did Russia withdraw from Ukraine? Why are we ending this punishment? /s

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 9 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Just half? What about the other half then!?

They all left the middle spot blank thinking a free space still existed in this world

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

That moment when you say what will the attorney general do on their first day? Appease Russian Oligarchs. Okay...

[–] shoulderoforion@fedia.io 9 points 19 hours ago

well, this was expected, right? i mean, you know one of the side effects of trump becoming president is russia annexes ukraine, just gets the whole fucking thing, and publicly executes it's current leadership and enslaves it's populace, right?

[–] offendicula@fedia.io 29 points 20 hours ago

Half the worlds bingo cards are already full

I'm laughing but also crying 😩