NATO has been "involved" all along, first of all by teasing NATO membership for Ukraine.
Posted on 03/06/2024 2:52:42 PM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com
France's suggestion of non-combat NATO troops in Ukraine will create uncertainty in the Kremlin that will add to his post-election problems, Philip Ingram tells Frontline
Putin is in trouble! The Kremlin did not expect this! NATO warned Russia for the last time!
Frontline Reports
Mar 6, 2024 5:45 p.m. EST
10:15 Minutes
https://youtu.be/3yc3MdR43_s
More YouB00b vids, from FR’s resident YouB00b Ukraine harpy?
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Britain ‘prepared to loan Ukraine all frozen Russian central bank assets in UK’
Patrick Wintour
3-6-2024 Updated 05.40 EST
Britain is prepared to loan Ukraine all frozen Russian central bank assets in the UK on the basis that Russia will be forced to pay reparations to Ukraine at the end of the war, the UK foreign secretary David Cameron has said.
He said the assets would be used as surety for the payment of the reparations.
The plan is more radical than proposals discussed in the European Union for Ukraine to be given only the windfall profits from the Russian central bank assets being held by the West. The annual windfall profits are estimated at $4bn.
Cameron told peers on Tuesday night:
There is an opportunity to use something like a syndicated loan or a bond that effectively uses the frozen Russian assets as a surety to give that money to the Ukrianians knowing that we will recoup it when reparations are paid by Russia. That may be a better way of doing it. We are aiming for the maximum amount of G7 and EU unity on this but if we cannot get it I think we will have to move ahead with allies that want to take this action.
Cameron said he did not think the bond plan would undermine the reputation of the City of London in any way.
It is the first time Cameron has spoken about the proposal openly in such detail, and probably underscores the political support the plan has in the US, but not the EU.
The plan would be especially helpful to Ukraine if the US Congress continues to block an extension of aid to Ukraine since it would provide Ukraine with a new source of funds to buy armaments, and fund its budget deficit.
The G7 has been debating for over a year whether the Russian central bank assets frozen at the time of the Russian invasion of Ukraine could also be seized without undermining faith in the international financial system.
The EU estimates around €260bn in Central Bank of Russia assets have been immobilised in the form of securities and cash in the jurisdictions of the G7 partners, the EU and Australia, with more than two-thirds of those immobilised in the EU.
Belgium is thought to have control of as much as 190bn of the assets, housed in its Euro clear financial clearing house, and is the most reluctant to follow the kind of radical plan set out by Cameron. It says it is already facing a series of court cases mainly in Russia, and its stance has the backing of France and Germany.
The US Treasury, initially reluctant to seize Central Bank assets due to the assumed sanctity of sovereign state assets, has warmed to the idea of a bond. The US is estimated to have $40 to $60bn worth of Russian assets, and the UK closer to £25bn, but no official figure has been disclosed.
The strength of the proposal is that seized assets would be deemed to have been returned to Russia after the payment of reparations. The proposal’s weakness is that it assumes Ukraine will win a military victory and a defeated Moscow will be prepared to pay reparations for the damage it caused to Ukraine, something that now seems unimaginable.
Vladimir Putin has already retaliated by seizing the assets of some US companies operating in Russia.
It is estimated Ukraine needs €100bn a year to fight off the Russian invasion, and another €50bn a year for reconstruction.
Similar appropriations of state assets have happened before, most notably the UN-sanctioned US seizure of billions of dollars of Iraqi funds that were earmarked for reparations for Kuwait in the after the 1990 invasion. Russia would veto any UN move to endorse seizure of its assets
The foreign secretary said he did not think the Russian President Vladimir Putin would stop at Ukraine, saying“ if we allowed Russian any form of win in Ukraine Moldova would be at risk and some of the Baltic states would be at risk.”
“How does this guy know whether Putin is “scared”?”
Perhaps, you’re corret. Putin actually has repeatedly proven he couldn’t care less about loss of life of the Russian people.
NATO has been "involved" all along, first of all by teasing NATO membership for Ukraine.
Do you post while dressed as a clown?
....even Putin, dumbass that he is, must know that France’s GNP is 3,115.000 Trillion compared to his 1,873.000 trillion and sinking fast.
Plus France doesn’t have the number 2 economy in the world (China) on it’s eastern border preparing for certain war against Moscow. Knowing Moscow can’t defend it’s huge geography in the east, it’s just a matter of time because eastern Russia has all the minerals and energy China could ever dream of.
The talk is that the French will relieve the Ukies on the Belarusian border. That frees them up to go to the active front to fight the Russians. This also put pressure on Lukashenko in Belarus. He would then have the Poles to his West, the French to his South, and possibly more NATO troops in Lithuania and Latvia. The Belarusian people might depose him in that situation.
In the General/Chat forum, on a thread titled 'Putin's scared of NATO' involvement, post-election nightmare threatens his position | Philip Ingram, UMCRevMom@aol.com wrote: VIDEO Putin is in trouble! The Kremlin did not expect this! NATO warned Russia for the last time!
Frontline Reports
Mar 6, 2024 5:45 p.m. EST
10:15 Minutes
https://youtu.be/3yc3MdR43_s
That's absurd! Putin has been fighting NATO, with NATO using Ukrainians as proxies. NATO provides the command structure for the military (everyone above troop level) and NATO countries already have their own forces in the Ukraine. In the US, soldiers are allowed to 'retire' from the military, serve as 'volunteers' in the Ukraine, and then rejoin the military upon return to the US, technically avoiding designation as US troops.
Also, US and Germany provide military missile operators to the Ukraine when they send the Ukraine military hardware too complex to train quickly. Germany's use of their own military in the Ukraine was just exposed in the past few days.
Those are just two of the leaked sources of NATO troops in the Ukraine. Look at NATO's manipulation and goals for world dominion which Putin is interupting, and estimate just how many troops they REALLY have in the Ukraine, and how long they've been there.
Zelensky doesn’t care about the loss of life of his people either. He agreed to a proxy war using his own people and he lines his own pockets with western taxpayer cash while doing so..
Yes, Putin is terrified of France. LOL.
NATO troops in the Ukraine will be fair game.
Or do you want us and NATO to go to war with Russia despite the fact that overwhelming percentage of the population in all NATO countries opposes a hot war with Russia?
It's quite a few.
The Frog armored vehicles were exposed as so much Euro junk.
And, if we allow the assets of Russians to be stolen, it will result in backlash hurts our economy and the dollar.
Doing so is the equivalent of what the state of New York is trying with Trump. There will be severe consequences.
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