www.theepochtimes.com/world/using-frozen-russian-assets-to-help-ukraine-will-happen-one-way-or-another-blinken-5632882
Using Frozen Russian Assets to Help Ukraine Will Happen ‘One Way or Another’: Blinken
Flaired Users OnlyHow? If we are categorically unwilling to ever seize his money, why would Putin care about it as a bargaining chip.
Let’s present him a deal where he leaves and gets every nickel back, or stays and has to fight through weapons bought and men paid by his own $350B. That’s a $700B swing from getting money vs having to overcome the same money, and bound to get his attention
It's the most schizo foreign policy.
Wait weeks, even months to try and constrain Russian finances in the immediate aftermath of the new Ukraine invasion. But then make sure Russian oil keeps getting sold anyway, going so far as to exhort Ukraine to not hit Russian energy targets.
Unfreeze and return Iranian funds even as they openly fund terror and stir up shit in the Mideast.
Threaten to seize frozen Russian funds. Russia and Iran are essentially allies. So there's zero consistency here if the argument re: Iran was, well, it's really their money.
All this schizoid policy is reflected on the left whose college age foot soldiers praise Hamas and Iran (Russia's ally) while supporting Ukraine (Russia's enemy) and hating America (Ukraine's ally and Russia's enemy) and Israel.
It will get us BRIC'd sooner or later.
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I mean, so the old saying goes "all is fair in love and war" and we're obviously talking about war, here. So yeah, Russia invaded Ukraine and that immediately makes them the bad guys. I doubt anyone will shed a tear for Russia as their "frozen assets" are liquidated and provided to Ukraine for defense. But this is also an absolutely terrible move if you want to keep peace talks on the negotiation table, in the near future. This is completely counter-productive to trying to find a resolution to the conflict and will just make the fighting, bloodshed, and spending go on that much longer.