Mastodawn

Laffy Dec 28, 2024

“The U.S. has imposed sanctions on #Georgia’s former prime minister and billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili, accusing him and the ruling party he founded of “undermining” the country’s “democratic and Euro-Atlantic future” to benefit #Russia.”
https://thehill.com/policy/international/5058366-bidzina-ivanishvili-georgia-sanctions/

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Nicole Parsons Dec 28, 2024

@GottaLaff

The fossil fuel industry, the most publicly corrupt industry on the planet.

Every billionaire on the planet launders money, evades sanctions, & shills for this industry, one way or another.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/16/bidzina-ivanishvili-georgias-billionaire-puppet-master-betting-the-house-on-moscow

https://oilprice.com/Geopolitics/International/Are-Georgia-and-Kyrgyzstan-Facilitating-Russias-Evasion-of-Sanctions.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/03/21/oligarchs-are-suffocating-whats-left-democracy-eastern-europe/

https://www.euractiv.com/section/enlargement/news/georgias-ivanishvili-lashes-out-at-west-amid-foreign-agent-bill-crisis/

https://www.rferl.org/a/georgian-elections-united-states-relations-sanctions/33151278.html

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/former-georgian-pm-wins-bermuda-claim-against-credit-suisse-subsidiary-2022-03-29/

https://theins.ru/en/politics/274647

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/to-help-georgians-the-west-must-drive-a-wedge-between-georgia-and-the-russia-china-iran-camp/

https://carnegieendowment.org/russia-eurasia/politika/2023/02/double-win-how-russian-oil-companies-defied-sanctions-and-paid-less-tax?lang=en

https://transparency.ge/en/blog/alleged-cases-high-level-corruption-periodically-updated-list

https://ecfr.eu/publication/broken-dream-the-oligarch-russia-and-georgias-drift-from-europe/

Bidzina Ivanishvili: Georgia’s billionaire ‘puppet master’ betting the house on Moscow

As Georgians rally against an illiberal new law seen as a tilt to the Kremlin, its oligarch sponsor may consider it essential self-defence

The Guardian

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Maureen Oesch Dec 28, 2024

@Npars01 @GottaLaff Yes. Every. Single. One. Many millionaires do, as well.

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Brokar

@maureenoesch @Npars01

iirc Agent Orange was backed by several billionaires as well. And he wants the same Ivanishvili wants. A totalitarian state.
Who's going to sanction Trump and Musk then?

I am really so tired of those morons and the non-action of everybody else.

Also, talking about billionaires and the oil industry: i'm pretty sure they were also lobbying hard to prevent the EU from having a resolution to fight plastic pollution.

https://environment.ec.europa.eu/news/eu-regrets-inconclusive-global-plastics-treaty-2024-12-02_en

@GottaLaff

EU regrets inconclusive global plastics treaty

After two years of negotiations and a week of talks in South Korea, UN member states failed to reach an agreement. Talks will continue in 2025.

Environment