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Well yes but you forget that Russia Bad so it is totally okay.
Laws and principles are only for vassals and only for when it is convenient to the US.
At the beginning of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, the US and its allies immediately froze $300 billion worth of Russian overseas assets, most of which is in the EU nations, with about $5 billion in the US. As the war continues, these funds have not been used.
Interesting that the vast majority of frozen assets are in the EU, not the U.S. Could be a factor in any sort of split between the two.
Yeah for sure, the damage for US is pretty minimal, but Euroclear is going to take a lot of heat from this. So, US is once again throwing Europe under the bus here.
It’s mostly Russian fuel investments into pipelines, port facilities, naval yards, tank farms, and refineries.
Russia’s largest international market for consumer goods, agricultural products, and industrial equipment, is also Europe, owing to how close they are and the ease of transporting goods and heavy machinery by rail, as opposed to container ship.
They’ve already violated sovereignty by holding it for more than a few months. Freezing is a nonsense term. It’s stealing but saying I’m not going to put it to use YET and maybe you’ll get it back if you do what I want you to. They’ve already stolen it by virtue of taking it from Russia with no intent of returning it and denying them use of it, they’re just quibbling whether they feel morally okay using it now or later and for what purposes. So IMO I hope they just take it, because they’ve already crossed a line and should suffer for it.
Absolutely, and the whole world can see it. Anybody who’s not a US vassal will be actively working to exit western economy now.
