Euroclear, which holds 191bn of 260bn in frozen Russian assets, warns against G7 plan to backstop Ukraine debt with Russian assets - eviltoast
  • brain_in_a_box@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    For it to be a precedent, it would have to be applied consistently. But it isn’t; you don’t see Isreal having its assets frozen, or Britain, or France, or the USA. Which means he only precedent you see is the West stealing financial assets from its enemies, regardless of who the aggressor is.

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      1 year ago

      Hey, when the funds are stored in Russian banks, you are certainly welcome to freeze them all you want. But for some reason they typically aren’t. Huh, I wonder why?