“Consequently, the Ukraine has the right to seize and impound all Russian assets, including accounts receivable for the natural gas payments”
Okay, that one there is durned funny!!! Guns, jets, and artillery defeat lawyers, every single time.
You have never read Machiavelli, have you?
That’s an act of war. Even Kiev is not that stupid.
“Okay, that one there is durned funny!!! Guns, jets, and artillery defeat lawyers, every single time.”
Which is why Goering and his buddies were hanged or committed suicide to avoid hanging.
“You have never read Machiavelli, have you?”
Of course I’ve read Machiavelli, but I’ve also read the many responses to Machiavelli, such as the Kellogg-Briand or Paris Pact of 1928 and a number of other subsequent authorities in international law that authorize the “Guns, jets, and artillery” to “defeat” and bring retribution by international law to the practitioners of Machivellan intrigues and hand them over to the lawyers for punishment, if they survive that long.