Posted on 02/27/2023 11:31:53 AM PST by Tench_Coxe
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen made a ‘surprise’ visit to Kiev on Monday to reinforce the US’s support for Ukraine.
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Shmyhal, speaking through an interpreter, said the two discussed further U.S. sanctions on Russia aimed at weakening its economy and military and “confiscating frozen Russian assets and putting them to the benefit of the recovery of Ukraine.”
But Yellen told reporters in a phone briefing that there were still significant legal obstacles to fully seizing the $300 billion in Russian central bank assets frozen by sanctions.
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
Remember all the screaming by the left when President Trump LEGALLY spent money from the defense budget on building the border wall? They all went ballistic. It was a small fraction of what they are diverting to Ukraine. Yet nobody is going ballistic over this.
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