Blinken: US and EU need legal frameworks to seize Russian assets. Moscow has to pay to rebuild Ukraine, the top diplomat says, telling Putin: ‘You broke it, you bought it.’
by MaryADraper
Blinken: US and EU need legal frameworks to seize Russian assets. Moscow has to pay to rebuild Ukraine, the top diplomat says, telling Putin: ‘You broke it, you bought it.’
by MaryADraper
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“You broke it, you bought it”
Preach!!!
I mean I am assuming its not meant this way, but I am pretty sure Putin would buy Ukraine even for all Russia’s foreign assets no questions asked.
no no no this is not you break it you buy it… it wasnt for sale.
that would imply they also own it.
You broke it, you bought it…you own it? The Biden Administration and EU leadership are pretty incompetent. Remember, these are the same people who got into bed with Russia for cheap energy.
Definitely need to seize more assets, I am sure even Russians (not RuZZians) know this should happen in lieu of them not standing up against this horror. I expect the Russians exiles in Turkey will be sending money to Ukraine in the form of aid also. It will take all hands to remove this regime so they can get their country and future back.
That s not difficult, make a law that says russian assets in the west will be confiscated and is going to pay the reparation and the military support of Ukraine. That s it.
Not only rebuild, repair and replace but russia should be held financial responsible for all war related pensions and social programs. Russia ( Moscow really) should also pay for all the weapons and aid provided to Ukraine by western countries.
Please bear in mind that China supported Russia and continues to benefit from cheap, sanctioned Russian and Iranian fuel – I believe China should also contribute, ideally not through debt trap loans.
Why even need laws, we should never allow the Russians to ever be brought back to society, take everything from them and give it to Ukraine, fuck the laws. What’s Russia going to do, take the EU to court? Who cares, tell them to fuck off.
Russian assets should be taken and used in Ukraine and anywhere else In the world.
Why worried about rebuilding? Should be worried about how to end the conflict and kick Russia out of Ukraine.
It’s not easy but it should start with “discussions” about nato sending ground troops to secure and defend the civilian centers and nuclear power plants and other infrastructure points that are non military targets.
Discuss discuss discuss. Get it out there. It gets the Russians over the immediate alarming idea.
Then you send more anti air with some nato operators. Then you send some more nato troops to defend those operators. Then you use air support to defend those nato ground troops. So on and so on. Eventually you create nato defense bubbles.
Russia says: we will nuke you!
China says: no you won’t
India says: no you won’t
USA then says: no you won’t.
International law though is something where countries basically can just decide by themselves – there weren’t a legal framework to prosecute the Nazis after WW2 but we managed to do that nevertheless, by essentially saying it was a natural law, a crime against humanity. Let’s do that again, you break it you buy it sounds like a fundamental rule of the universe.
Free the frozen Russian assets faster, they have been working on it for more than a year.
When Ukraine retakes Crimea Russia will pay what ever price Ukraine demands to regain port access to Sevastopol.