Putin seizes $100m from Google to fund Russia’s war machine (in 2020)

For real.

Putin, please do nestle next.

Aaaand... we're upvoting comments of people that obviously have not read the article.

New court documents filed in the US shows that Russian authorities “seized” Google’s money from their bank account in Moscow in 2022 around the time Putin invaded Ukraine.

This happened at the time of the initial invasion and this article is just talking about the lawsuit over it.

So, unless your trying to imply that Google should have been able to see the future, your comment is inappropriate. I only point this out because you're so highly voted up and are clearly spreading misinformation.

To be fair, the seizure happened back in 2020 when companies were still in the process of removing themselves from Russia. And it happened in retaliation for google complying with international sanctions against Russia.

They're important details. And you would have seen them in the article if you'd read it.

Putin doesn't care, he's old enough he's facing his own mortality and his "capstone achievement" is regaining as much ex Soviet territory as possible.

He thought he'd steamroll Ukraine and move on to the next, for someone like Putin he'd consider his entire life a failure if he doesn't get it.

And he's not trump, he's evil as fuck but he's not an idiot. He knows he won't live forever and this is the last push.

Doesn't matter if the whole country dissolves the day after he dies, he wants Russia to cover as much land as possible the day before.

It's an insanely dangerous geopolitical position even before factoring in Israel attacking Russia's allies, like I'm legit surprised no ones declared war today.

I know people are optimistic because Kamala's almost definitely going to win, but trump isn't the only shit show on the schedule.

I think we can do both. Google is trying to keep from repatriating profits so they don’t need to pay taxes. Russia took it. Fuck Russia, but I can’t feel too bad for Google.

Convert it to rubles, cut the price of materiel to cost, and the end result is a bit more than that. However, Russia started this SMO with rewards and bonuses given out like the country was a tech stock at an IPO. Now they have to pay out those bonuses since it's been 2 years and they haven't managed to kill off every single enlisted schmuck. They are also continuing to entice more from other countries with strong currencies, requiring more signing bonus money.

Oh, and Wagner suffered some big losses this year and that will need to be patched up with whatever talent and vehicles are available. Frankly, Putin has a lot of big bills and every bit of other people's money counts.

The article says it's for propaganda. RT etc.