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Is It the Diamonds?
You tweeted a little while ago something about, and I didn't write it down, when they were first putting the sanctions on Russia and Putin's regime in Russia. One of the stories that percolated was, oh, luxury goods are accepted or exempted from the sanctions. And people were talking about Gucci handbags and shit like that. That doesn't make sense unless you're hiding them. You're hiding the fact that what you're actually exempting are sanctions on an industry worth gazillions of dollars.