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Caganer
Feb 15, 2018
How many of these attacks will the UK tolerate before invoking Article V? This is the second act of war in a week!


https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/mar/13/russian-exile-nikolai-glushkov-found-dead-at-his-london-home

quote:

A Russian exile who was close friends with the late oligarch Boris Berezovsky has been found dead in his London home, according to friends.

Nikolai Glushkov was discovered by his family and friends late on Monday night, aged 68. The cause of death is not yet clear. One of his friends, the newspaper editor Damian Kudryavtsev, posted the news on his Facebook page.

In the 1990s, Glushkov worked for the state airline Aeroflot and Berezovsky’s LogoVAZ car company. In 1999, as Berezovsky fell out with Vladimir Putin and fled to the UK, Glushkov was charged with money laundering and fraud. He spent five years in jail and was freed in 2004.

In recent years, Glushkov had lived in London, where he received political asylum. In 2011, he gave evidence at the court case brought by Berezovsky against his fellow oligarch Roman Abramovich, who remained on good terms with the Kremlin.

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Ride The Gravitron
May 2, 2008

by FactsAreUseless
Watch trump start a war

Caganer
Feb 15, 2018

Ride The Gravitron posted:

Watch trump start a war

we should. this is an act of war.

Barudak
May 7, 2007

Ride The Gravitron posted:

Watch trump start a war

He won’t, if you havent noticed he said nothing about the previous one even though theoretically he should have been all about it.

Sophy Wackles
Dec 17, 2000

> access main security grid
access: PERMISSION DENIED.





Ride The Gravitron posted:

Watch trump start a war

Watch...wait uhh who’s the British PM??...uhh start a war!!

Caganer
Feb 15, 2018

Pawn 17 posted:

Watch...wait uhh who’s the British PM??...uhh start a war!!

some thatcher lookin' tory

spinderella
Jul 15, 2017

by FactsAreUseless
If I was Russia I'd start throwing my weight around, why not? Someone else said it months ago and I've never forgotten it, I even put it on a protest sign:

"What a weird way to lose the Cold War."

My shock and surprise hasn't really lessened for me since the election, it still feels surreal.

BEAR GRYLLZ
Jul 30, 2006

I have strong erections for Israel.
Strong, pathetic erections.

folks, why is britain defending these traitors anyway? you know what we do with traitors here right? we execute them. i like the ones who didn't betray us.

boner confessor
Apr 25, 2013

by R. Guyovich

Ride The Gravitron posted:

Watch trump start a war

not with russia lol. the uk is going to invoke nato and trump will back down like a crybaby punk and russia's decades long goal of destroying nato will be achieved

trump is busy trying to pick a fight with a worthier adversary, north korea

Chinatown
Sep 11, 2001

by Fluffdaddy
Fun Shoe
sounds like none of my god drat business

ditty bout my clitty
May 28, 2011

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe

Barudak posted:

He won’t, if you havent noticed he said nothing about the previous one even though theoretically he should have been all about it.

That’s because his mouth is full of putins unwashed rear end in a top hat

Kazak
Jan 10, 2012

Chinatown posted:

sounds like none of my god drat business

:hai:

Spermanent Record
Mar 28, 2007
I interviewed a NK escapee who came to my school and made a thread. Then life got in the way and the translation had to be postponed. I did finish it in the end, but nobody is going to pay 10 bux to update my.avatar
This Russian on Russian violence must end TODAY!

Loky11
Dec 12, 2006

Pull on the new flesh like borrowed gloves and burn your fingers once again
Old people sometimes die. Sometimes even old Russians. Just because some guy had enemies doesn't mean his death is suspicious off the bat.

Alarmists

kickascii
Mar 30, 2010
BBC just aired 2 shows about Putin.

Russia's Fake Election (march 8th)
Putin: The New Tsar (march 9th)

Is MI5 up to something? Or is Putin just "campaigning," making himself look like a badass increases his popularity at home.

Remember when you watched the news and just took the reporting at face value?

Caganer
Feb 15, 2018
notice how they don't pull this poo poo in America, because we have the death penalty and will roast us some... what's a Russian food? Beets? Vodka soaked limes?

Creamed Cormp
Jan 8, 2011

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
so a guy with shady dealings die, obviously this means Putin is behind it, and not possibly one of the dozens of various mafias he had ratfucked over the years

bag em and tag em
Nov 4, 2008

Ride The Gravitron posted:

Watch trump start a war

With the UK if they blame his good friend, Putin for these totally random deaths that are not at all his fault!

World War Mammories
Aug 25, 2006


interesting, but it seems they haven't released cause of death yet.

though lmao apparently this guy knew multiple other russian exiles who died of natural causes like "found hanging in their bathroom," so lol I know I won't be surprised

Beefeater
May 17, 2003

I'm hungry.
Hair Elf

Caganer posted:

notice how they don't pull this poo poo in America, because we have the death penalty and will roast us some... what's a Russian food? Beets? Vodka soaked limes?

I think you're looking for "borscht".

ditty bout my clitty
May 28, 2011

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe

Caganer posted:

notice how they don't pull this poo poo in America, because we have the death penalty and will roast us some... what's a Russian food? Beets? Vodka soaked limes?

The death penalty has little to do with it. If a russian operative was somehow caught the americans would make him talk, and suddenly the sanctions would turn into blockades.

Hector Beerlioz
Jun 16, 2010

aw, hec
i bet the vodka soured, once you open it you only got so long before it sours

Have Blue
Mar 27, 2013


Panther Like a Panther

Hector Beerlioz posted:

i bet the vodka soured, once you open it you only got so long before it sours

yeah you gotta drink it all down real quick

Caganer
Feb 15, 2018

Hector Beerlioz posted:

i bet the vodka soured, once you open it you only got so long before it sours

youre thinking of whiskey. (a whiskey sour is old whiskey that tastes bad because it wasn't consumed while fresh)

poorlifedecision
Feb 13, 2012
Lipstick Apathy

ditty bout my clitty posted:

The death penalty has little to do with it. If a russian operative was somehow caught the americans would make him talk, and suddenly the sanctions would turn into blockades.

I mean, maybe pre-Trump. Now there'd just be some hemming and hawing about how we can't tell who it was for sure and can we really trust the intelligence community I mean Putin says it wasn't them and could be anyone. Even some kid in his parents' basement!

OxMan
May 13, 2006

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Caganer posted:

notice how they don't pull this poo poo in America, because we have the death penalty and will roast us some... what's a Russian food? Beets? Vodka soaked limes?

Last year russian mob went on a local big business robbery campaign including literally tunneling under a hardware store and dropping the safe out that way and afaik they were never caught so I'm pretty sure if russian mob wanted to off you in the US you're doneski.

Rad-daddio
Apr 25, 2017
So, did this guy commit suicide by shooting himself in the back of the head with a polonium dart?

GABA ghoul
Oct 29, 2011

May gotta start killing Brits in Russia now. Fight fire with fire.

Knight
Dec 23, 2000

SPACE-A-HOLIC
Taco Defender
https://twitter.com/RussianEmbassy/status/973611069687156736

:commissar:

Oscar Wild
Apr 11, 2006

It's good to be a G

World War Mammories posted:

interesting, but it seems they haven't released cause of death yet.

though lmao apparently this guy knew multiple other russian exiles who died of natural causes like "found hanging in their bathroom," so lol I know I won't be surprised

Cause of death is...

*looks at handwriting on sweaty hand*

Being Russian

GABA ghoul
Oct 29, 2011


Oh yeah, I'm so loving scared of a failed petro state with a GDP smaller than Italy's and ranked almost dead last in every corruption ranking

Caganer
Feb 15, 2018

i say do a crossover between lethal weapon 2 and the nato bombing of yugoslovia and blow up the embassy

Have Blue
Mar 27, 2013


Panther Like a Panther

maybe they shoulda thought about consequences before they started assassinating people with chemical weapons in broad daylight

Caganer
Feb 15, 2018

Have Blue posted:

maybe they shoulda thought about consequences before they started assassinating people with chemical weapons in broad daylight

gold replies:

https://twitter.com/thejdr7/status/973616220820910080

https://twitter.com/LGRooney/status/973618360641564672

Have Blue
Mar 27, 2013


Panther Like a Panther
yeah if we're playing tit for tat we owe russia a few craters and annexations

great big cardboard tube
Sep 3, 2003


I used to hope the piss tape was real but as it becomes increasingly clear that it is I wish it was not so our government could act without fear of it being released.

spinderella
Jul 15, 2017

by FactsAreUseless
It is not completely ridiculous to say that the fate of Earth as we know it may rest in a porn star's hands.

Oscar Wild
Apr 11, 2006

It's good to be a G

Spinster posted:

It is not completely ridiculous to say that the fate of Earth as we know it may rest in a porn star's hands.

Mary Magdalene was given a bum rap and you know it.

Rutibex
Sep 9, 2001

by Fluffdaddy

Chinatown posted:

sounds like none of my god drat business

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weg
Jun 6, 2006

Reassisted Retrogression
world nuked, so what


Seriously though, Putin is forcing the rest of the world to play his game. He seems to know just how far to push things but I wonder how well he has calculated all of this. If NATO wants heavy sanctions and the US backs out due to Trump's piss.mp4, the resulting fallout from a Trump presidency could be worse than was initially calculated.

I hope this speeds up Mueller's team a little bit without making them blow their load too early.

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