Didn’t the U.S. confiscate some of the Russian gold? I haven’t heard what happened after that. I suppose we could have said it belongs to Russia but we will return it to Putin’s successor and the end of the war in Ukraine.
” I suppose we could have said it belongs to Russia but we will return it to Putin’s successor and the end of the war in Ukraine.”
That is just as odious. “We will seize your assets and return it when someone we approve of is in charge, but we aren’t stealing it.”
If your banker did that to you, would you ever go there again? If you saw a bank do that to your neighbor, would you keep your account there?