#Bestof2022: #Ukraine: Seizing grotesque yachts; & What is to be done? Richard A Epstein, @RichardAEpstein, @HooverInst, Tisch Professor of Law NYU Bedford Senior Fellow; Hoover Institution; senior lecturer, University of Chicago Law School.
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 12 December 2023
⏱️ 7 minutes
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| 0:38.0 | co-dot UK. This is a series of cb-s in the world. I'm John Bachelor with Professor Richard Epstein of the |
| 0:49.5 | Hoover Institution who does me the favor to comment on a phenomenon that we witness during these days of Ukraine |
| 0:56.1 | crisis, the seizure of fantasy yachts across the European plane. I have in front of me the named yachts, odd names. |
| 1:06.5 | United Kingdom detained the yacht belonging to an unnamed Russian businessman or |
| 1:11.5 | authorities in Gibraltar have detained yacht linked to a Russian |
| 1:15.1 | billionaire Dimitri Pompeianski or Spanish authorities have detained a |
| 1:20.0 | super yacht named Kresson in the port of Tarragona. It goes on, Italian authorities, French |
| 1:25.1 | authorities, seizing yachts in connection with oligarchs who are connected to Vladimir Putin who is said to be responsible for the |
| 1:35.1 | illegal conduct of the Russian military in Ukraine. |
| 1:39.1 | Fine. |
| 1:40.1 | However, the question I put to the professor, and he's very kind to come forward on this, is these seizures, |
| 1:47.2 | it strikes me that these are actions of NATO, and if that's true, the U.S. is part of NATO. Does the U.S. have power as we're |
| 1:56.2 | witnessing our European allies to seize yachts in a marina or on the high seas? |
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