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  All it took is to believe US' word for it, that's it. Even if he didn't know, he had a hunch something was gonna happen, especially given his status and wealth, no wonder he took precautions.
context: He owns at least 10 more yachts than was previously known, per the report.
  
  Imagine being so rich that investigations in to your assets can be off by ten yachts. >
  
  Are yachts some kind of investment? Why would a man need ten yachts? Are they in various harbors in the world so he can go on a sea trip in any of his favorite locations? Or do yachts not degrade value-wise  and can be resold for roughly the same price (doesn't sound right)? >
  
  
  Are they in various harbors in the world so he can go on a sea trip in any of his favorite locations?
  
  Yes.  And often chartered when not in use by the owner.
  They used to devalue at a pretty tremendous pace. But we've just experienced a global pandemic fueled commodity and labour shortage.  If you were lucky enough to have been delivered any superyacht in 2019, you could have sold it to someone else for 10s of millions more.  Like the car market but for rich people.
  The same people paying 150k over sticker for a G Wagon.
  The waiting list is still pretty long for the big names I think.
  These yachts that he has cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to refuel, let alone staff.  Millions of dollars per year to run...each.  some of them will be 10s of millions each.
  Some of his yachts have supporting yachts.  He had a yacht for his yacht so he doesn't have to clutter his big yacht with all the toys.  Plus extra cabins for guests or staff.
  The level of wealth these people have is beyond comprehension. >
  
  Correct.  The oligarchs who were given pieces of the Russian economy to privatize everything became extraordinarily wealthy.      Be alert in the USA when a certain political party starts going on about needing to privatize government services, social security, etc.   The oligarchs model and its private wealth is what their end goal is. >
  
  You just had to throw your political bias in there, didn’t you? >
  
  It's exactly what the tories did here. Only companies owned by tories were given the licence to do the pop up Covid testing that was mandated to be allowed to fly.
  These facilities were not inspected and a lot were not actually giving accurate results, with the front staff being mostly students with no knowledge of what they were doing. Super cheap labour, and a monopoly on the market. A great win for the cronies. >
  
  What are you on about?
  Tories? Cronies? >
  
  Am guessing his children have other nationalities to claim in order to avoid having his millions seized from them. >
  
  Abramovich has other nationalities as well. He has Israeli and Portuguese citizenship. Hasn’t stopped him from being sanctioned. >
  
  In the US, gifts of this order of magnitude would be considered taxable income - perhaps it is time to sick the tax folks on his children. >
  
  Those tax folks you mention would be the Russian tax authority. Pretty sure they have no motivation to penalise their own. >
  
  "Own"...more like their superiors/owners/masters >
  
  Which means he knew about it.
  Which means he's culpable. >
  
  How? Just because he knew about it doesn’t mean he helped plan it, and it also doesn’t mean he could have prevented it.
  You’re Roman Abramovich and one of your politician/military friends tells you that there’s soon going to be an invasion into Ukraine, tf would you do? >
  
  Helped? He knows, so he was helpful in one or other way. Do you believe that random people there have info before start of war? >
  
  a lot of people knew this was going to happen, including the US government. do you think that they were all helping just because they knew? that's fucking ridiculous >
  
  The US government had intelligence agencies. I doubt RA was spying on the Russian government. So if he knew, it would have been inside information. >
  
  US and British intelligence were telling everybody who would listen for months. It wouldn't have required him having inside information. Anybody watching the news should have known about those claims, at least. >
  
  Seize them, sell, with proceeds going to Ukraine 🇺🇦