Vladimir Putin is going on a property hunt, ordering officials to find Russian assets that once belonged to its former empire or were owned by the Soviet Union.
An order from the Russian president published late Thursday allocated funding for a state unit to conduct searches for property abroad and ensure Russia’s ownership rights are registered. The document didn’t indicate the size of the budget for the operation or what kinds of property are being sought.
While it’s unclear what prompted the order, Putin’s interest in former imperial possessions is unlikely to ease concerns about his ambitions among neighboring states after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine upended European security.
At its peak, the Russian Empire extended into territories of modern Poland and the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, as well as Finland. It dissolved under the pressure of World War I and the 1917 Bolshevik revolution led by Vladimir Lenin that marked the birth of the Communist state.
Sorry Pootie, just because USSR owned it, doesn’t mean your shitty little gas station gets to claim it.
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NATO: “Your low character is the subject of Greek plays. May your humors rot in your living body. We accept your surrender.”
Let us know if you find the Amber Room, will you?
Wasn’t that technically everything in Russia?
The Hunt. Is. On.
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Looks like Putin is going on antique roadshow
And yet the mods remove posts about the Polish and Estonia PMs warning about future Russian aggression… Interesting.
Some might even say… Propaganda.
I don’t get it, what are they looking for? Do they want all the faberge eggs?
“You are to return the nesting doll by order of Vladimir Putin!”
The Russian mob needs foreign property to borrow against. That’s how they operate. The money machine is having some problems with sanctions, and storage is constantly being depleted.
While it’s unclear what prompted the order, Putin’s interest in former imperial possessions…
“We consider all former nations of the USSR to be former imperial possessions. We will be taking them back.”
A while back, some nut in the Duma said they should reclaim all former Russian territory, including Alaska. It would amuse me greatly to see them try.
We wouldn’t even need to deploy the Army, the locals would curbstomp them back to Siberia.
why stop at Siberia?
The US has no interest in colonies ever since that fiasco in the Philippines in the late 1800s
That Duma official has forgotten that the local Alaskan population is armed for much more massive wildlife than a Russian conscript.
I’m reading between the lines: “Russia is broke”
Looking for change in the
couch cushionsold countries they used to own.It’s pure fantasy fiction, but honestly how wild would it be if some mind-blowing Cold War Tech that was forgotten or abandoned got unearthed? Like a rocket with a hull so thick and boosters so big it could carry 500 tons into LEO, or maybe a big underground semi-functional fusion reactor attempt, or maybe even an analog supercomputer.
Probably not, though. More realistically, he just wants to track down a bunch of old USSR weapons and vehicles before the dissenters do.
he already has a bunch of Republicans convinced that giving back Alaska is not only a good idea but the right thing to do
He owns those people now. He can have them back.
those bitches can’t roll over fast enough for him… they figure if we give it back, maybe he won’t invade…
Got em in his back pocket since the RNC hack.
Russia can’t even handle a war against a former client state, there’s no chance they’d invade a current superpower and former near peer nation like the US. If they tried, they’d get stomped into the dirt before either side started waving their nuclear dick at the other.
Republican cowards would find a way to let him
Molon Labe
Pootin should order a hunt for his dick and balls.
“Mister Putin, sir… With all respect, after thorough searching and examination, we have found them to be firmly lodged within your own rectum… We also found what appears to be an antique mold of Adolf Hitler’s dick and balls behind them…”
The Hunt for Red Cocktober
Hey, it’s not gay when underway.
Putin small pp.
Rasputin big pp.
This is the exact shit the Nazis did in the late 1930s.
