Major breaking news RE: Romanski Abramovich apparently

All the counter factorials are interesting topics but....I'm just in after a three mile walk and I'm already tired after typing what I've typed.

I just don't have your energy levels.

Yup but my paper doesn't say he has "given" it to them. So does that mean he still owns it? Probably, and who sits on this Trust and who do they they report to?

Until I hear further it's like the conman who puts everything in his wife's name.

I think this is your perspective, however I just don't think that's going to happen.

I support the Ukrainian resistance and Putin has committed a great if predictable wrong, however I'm going to be calculating rather than emotional and just say what I see happening.

Putin isn't stupid, invading and occupying parts of Ukraine that don't have a sizable Russian population would be foolish....that's the kind of thing the west did in the middle east.

Instead as has been said previously it's more likely that Putin doesn't over extend and that he clears out resistance within borders that he creates. We will support and should support what is defendable, which won't be East Ukraine....there we have to plead for reason not show trials.

Over the next two weeks he takes East Ukraine and installs a Russian friendly puppet, the west continues reinforcing Nato borders and continues with its combination of hurt hippy language and seemingly aggressive statements that have no actual committal meat to them....essentially we have Cold War 2.

The west uses sanctions but once fighting stops looks to normalise relations due to gas and food prices hurting us just as much as Russia....well more in fact as they have significant reserves and where there is demand for their resources there is supply.

Essentially Putin saw the weakness while the west deluded itself.

Edited by Stirlingsays (26 Feb 2022 3.08pm)

Yes he does still own them. The chairman of the Trust is none other than Bruce Buck who is also Chairman of Chelsea FC.
This just smacks of RA making sure his assets in Chelsea are not frozen, I am assuming you cannot freeze Charity assents.

The current euphemism used is irrational. Perhaps not stupid but distant from common sense.

Stirlingsays reckons it's a slam dunk. It won't be. The puppet state cannot possibly survive without a sitting army as the ongoing western fed resistance will make it impossible. Thus...

This side stepping of sanctions to avoid any politically damaging backlash such as prices at the pumps or hurt to the financial market will make us look weak when Russians inevitably upgrade the attack on civilians resulting in the bombing of an orphanage or they revert to chemical weapons etc. Sanctions will be intense and putin will be looking for a face saving out.