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Nate Sibley
@NateSibley
Senior Policy Advisor @HelsinkiComm. Illicit finance and economic statecraft. Opinions my own.
Washington, DC
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    Nate Sibley
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    Oct 15, 2021
    The Miami condo that collapsed in June, killing 98 people, was apparently built to launder cartel funds in the 1980s. Developers accordingly cut corners—critical defects that accelerated the building’s demise. Money laundering is not a victimless crime.
    usatoday.com
    Left to rot: Collapsed condo born of botched construction and evidence of money laundering
    Shell companies, cash deals, fast sales, strange buyers. USA TODAY found early condo sales exhibit telltale signs of a money laundering scheme.
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    Nate Sibley
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    Sep 22, 2023
    Biden denied Ukraine ATACMS (again) while McCarthy declined Zelensky’s request to address Congress Meanwhile out in the cold and dark, bullets are whipping over and into young Ukrainians as they stand alone on the frontline of the free world Not a good night for US leadership
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    Nate Sibley
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    Jul 5, 2024
    This would be the same Marine Le Pen whose party only survived financially because of a massive loan from—Russia.
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    Sir William Browder KCMG
    @Billbrowder
    Jul 5, 2024
    Marine Le Pen, vowed her party would prevent Kyiv using French-supplied long-range weapons to strike inside Russia and would stymie French President Emmanuel Macron’s suggestion he might put French boots on Ukrainian soil. cnn.com/2024/07/05/eur…
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    Nate Sibley
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    Feb 24, 2022
    A whole generation of Ukrainians watched Western democracies: - Launder Russian money - Whitewash oligarch reputations - Embrace Kremlin energy dependency Then: - Do absolutely nothing but virtue-tweet #standwithukraine War is Putin’s fault. But by God we should be ashamed.
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    Nate Sibley
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    Mar 21, 2022
    Why has US still not applied full blocking and secondary sanctions on Russia's central bank and entire financial sector, secondary sanctions on oil/gas, ignored major non-energy sectors? Room to escalate? What Russian depravity is left to deter that sanctions would in fact deter?
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    Nate Sibley
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    Mar 11, 2022
    “For practical purposes, [leaving Russia] isn’t an option...Nor would it be the right thing to do in terms of managing those client relationships” Says THE Russian money laundering bank Such greed while Ukrainian kids die is *sickening* Sanctions time!
    Deutsche Bank defends decision not to exit Russia: It's not 'practical' right now
    From cnbc.com
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    Nate Sibley
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    Oct 16, 2021
    Replying to @NateSibley
    Subscribe to read, but here are a couple key passages. Interestingly it was no longer useful for money laundering precisely because these maintenance problems had undermined its value. Money laundering is literally rotting out parts of America’s economy. usatoday.com/in-depth/news/…
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    Nate Sibley
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    Oct 3, 2021
    Remember: The real star of the #PandoraPapers isn’t any particular corrupt politician or criminal, however big the name. It’s the offshore financial system that not only facilitates but *incentivizes* corruption on a scale unprecedented in human history.
    Offshore havens and hidden riches of world leaders and billionaires exposed in unprecedented leak -...
    From icij.org
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    Nate Sibley
    @NateSibley
    Oct 24, 2022
    Good response from WH to this dismal letter: “Mr. Zelensky gets to determine — because it’s his country — what success looks like and when to negotiate... Quite frankly [the war] could end today if Mr. Putin did the right thing and pulled his troops out.”
    Liberals urge Biden to rethink Ukraine strategy
    From washingtonpost.com
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    Nate Sibley
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    Dec 22, 2023
    The case for seizing Russia’s sovereign assets for Ukraine assistance is clear—especially as Congress departs without a funding deal. Time to put Putin’s $330 billion war chest on a one-way flight to Kyiv. Make Russia pay! cc @OlenaHalushka @RLHeinrichs
    Make Russia Pay: The Case for Seizing Russia’s Sovereign Assets
    From hudson.org
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    Nate Sibley
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    Feb 19, 2025
    Russia has kidnapped at least 20,000 Ukrainian children from their families and is brainwashing them to hate their own people (Russian officials boast the number is 700,000) I for one am not interested in “geopolitical partnership” or “economic opportunities” with child abusers
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    Nate Sibley
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    Jan 24, 2022
    At some point we must acknowledge the obvious: “Germany is no longer a credible ally. For Germany, cheap gas, car exports to China and keeping Mr. Putin calm seem to be more important than allied democratic solidarity.” @TomRtweets
    wsj.com
    Opinion | Is Germany a Reliable American Ally? Nein
    Berlin goes its own way, prizing cheap gas, car exports to China, and keeping Putin calm.
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    Nate Sibley
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    Mar 1, 2022
    Sanctions are not “economic warfare.” That plays into the idea that anyone except Putin has escalated anything here. They are simply a country saying, we don’t agree with what you’re doing—and we won’t let you use our currency to do it. That’s it!
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    Nate Sibley
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    Jan 31, 2022
    “But NATO can also respond with its own hybrid warfare. Releasing intelligence about Mr. Putin’s personal wealth accumulation is one place to start. Unlike Russian propaganda, news about the Putin regime’s corruption has the advantage of being true.”
    Handling a Hybrid War in Ukraine
    Opinion | Handling a Hybrid War in Ukraine
    From wsj.com