The Europeeing kleptocrats run up the Jolly Roger.
Heh.
If they’re looking for a way to ratchet up and expand the war, sure.
Wait’ll the dirty RuZZians take it out in trade, boykas.
Get the oligarch yachts first and auction them off to the Arabians. With high oil prices they are very flush these days. Tie up the mega yachts in Dubai for inspection. Then hold the auctions.
My bid for a prime yacht starts at $100,000,000. But the yacht must include the yachting girls
Escalating economic warfare might — just might — have unintended consequences.
Look: Russia does have oil. And Russia does have food. And Russia’s population is not huge. These are all good things for Russia. Pushing the world into a global economic crisis will hurt millions of people. And probably very, very few of those people will speak Russian.
Take Russia’s assets and give them (less joe’s 10%) to the Ukranian leadership .
Once they do that, Russia can consider Ukraine as being paid for.
So the Ukrainian plutcrats are not expected to tap their accounts to help with the home country?
This would be pure theft. If Ukraine wants Russian they can negotiate for reparations. Any individual or country that might be in the potential sights of the EU and WEF get your money out now.
Piracy.
Back on the days when nations had integrity, the British did not touch one pence of Americans who had assets and money overthrew; including George Washington. They understood if they went down that road, no sane person would trust them again.
Stealing is not a “thorny legal question.”
It’s called THEFT. But, since we under Biden are the new evil empire, no one should be surprised.
Russian assets? What does that mean?
Russian State assets?
That’d be funny and quite a burn on Putin.
But if they’re private investments, eg retirement etc…, of private Russian citizens, that’s another matter.
The real question is
Does Putin belive that judicious global thermonuclear warming might thaw his assets?
A. Yes
Instead of hashing this out in Brussels, they should get together in Versailles and hash out a Treaty that Russia will be forced to sign. There is prior precedent for such an action.
“… Ukraine believes there is anywhere between $300 billion to $500 billion in Russian assets for the taking…”
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GIBS-ME-DAT $300 billion to $500 billion!
Sounds like this war is all about money. Big grab bag that everybody is taking from. Good thing our politicians have family members that have been consulting in the Ukraine, they already know what the real problems are.