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Redirecting military funds to buy wealthy oligarchs’ yachts is what has caused most of the problems with the Russian military. That and their military culture in general.

Pro-Putin useful idiots in the west parrot this language to make false allegations against Ukraine because it seems familiar and “truth-y” to the region because Russia literally did what they’re falsely accusing their opponents of doing. Still bullshit.

Zelenskyy fights from the front and asks for allies to keep their promises. Putin lives in a bunker and orders the bombing of schools and hospitals. Please don’t equate “the ukraine” with Russia. Muscovites lived in mud huts while Kyiv was the political and cultural center of the region.

How can anyone with a brain respect this group of GOP elected officials?

Either they're traitors paid off by Russian, or they really are dumb enough to spout off unverified information like they're on Facebook rather than supppsedly helping run a country

Also, why would anything we've seen from Zelensky so far suggest he would be the type to waste his country's precious resources on yachts? That's the behaviour of someone who'd sit out a war they instigated in a bunker.

So either the people in the US government who believe and repeat this are bought and paid for bad-faith actors who are working to promote foreign, hostile interests, and therefore guilty of treason

Or

They are so unbelievably idiotic that they fall for easily disproved lies coming from hostile territory.

Either way, they have no place in government and should be removed.

...Why would someone buy even a single Yacht while they're in the middle of a war, while likely also being a #1 target of said war?

Like if it was true I'd think he's an idiot, cause that's a hefty purchase that he likely wouldn't even be able to use right now. Why would anyone believe that at face value??

This is the best summary I could come up with:

A website founded by a former US Marine who now lives in Russia has fuelled a rumour that Volodymyr Zelensky purchased two luxury yachts with American aid money.

While discussing budget priorities on a podcast hosted by former Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon, Mr Vance said: "There are people who would cut Social Security, throw our grandparents into poverty, why?

Mr Dougan spent three years as a deputy with the Palm Beach County Sheriff's office, then after he left in 2009 he started a website spreading rumours about his former employers.

He said he does not recall the person he sold it to and has lost the paperwork due to being kicked off payment platforms and losing access to email accounts because of financial sanctions against Russia.

But the attention given to the country's real and ongoing corruption issues has been mild compared to online chatter over false stories backed up by fake documents and shadowy social media accounts.

BBC Verify and the Clemson researchers found a number of DC Weekly articles posted between August and December this year that followed the same pattern.

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