They shouldn’t have done that either but openly stealing money is an awful idea
The MAJOR “shouldn’t have done” occurred with the invasion of Ukraine by Putin.
The ‘A BIG HAMMER’ approach is to utilize frozen assets of Russia instead of bombs to curb the activity of warring nations.
QUOTE: “This is intended to be a big hammer. It’s intended to be a very new way of attacking a country that does not behave itself,” Republican Senator Jim Risch
Just as we put the squeeze on Japan before Pearl. History has a way of repeating itself.