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10 sats \ 9 replies \ @Catcher 10h \ on: Global Powers Seize Russian Wealth in Historic $494 Billion Asset Grab news
Interesting, more than a 100 billion in private assets seized. Will be amazing to see the list of owners.
Russia owes Ukraine trillions of dollars worth of damages. It's about time that Russian assets get returned to Ukraine, or at least, spent on defense of Ukraine.
...and that damn well should include private assets too. With war at this scale – a double digit percentage of Russian GDP is going to the invasion – the entire Russian economy and everyone working in it is responsible.
If you're Russian in most cases you had an ethical obligation to leave Russia years ago. If you didn't, and you could have, you're not much different from the soldiers doing the actual fighting.
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One example of a seized, privately owned, asset is a large Russian cargo plane at Toronto Pearson airport: https://toronto.citynews.ca/2024/01/12/antonov-airplane-toronto-pearson-international-airport/
I've seen it myself fairly recently flying through Toronto. The ridiculous thing is it has ended up with about a million dollars in storage fees owed to Toronto Pearson Airport because it's just been sitting there since 2022. It should have been sold off years ago to both pay the airport fairly and stop using up ramp space, and to use the remaining proceeds to compensate Ukraine (it's probably still worth ~$50 million).
Obviously, this would be a different matter if we were talking about a private individual who left Russia. But we're talking about an active Russian cargo company who is actively contributing to the invasion by continuing to operate and pay taxes in Russia.
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You know that the conflict between Russia and UK/NATO is a bit more complex, don't You?
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The hardest part about being a contrarian is knowing when not to be.
This isn't some subtle, complex, situation. Russia is invading Ukraine for their own stupid reasons, mainly to simply steal Ukrainian land and resources. Same thing Russia has done for centuries. That's the reason why Russia is as large as it is in the first place.
Obviously, peaceful countries have a vested interest in not allowing blatant, genocidal, theft to be a successful strategy. Because the sort of countries who do that are likely to repeat it all over again. This time with more wealth to fund their next invasion.
Hell, most of the reason NATO even exists is because countries in NATO knew damn well that Russia might invade them next; being in NATO is (so far) very effective at ensuring you don't get invaded by Russia. And sure enough, the Russian invasion of Ukraine meant that Finland and Sweden finally joined - both of which have borders with Russia.
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Oh, how I would enjoy a conversation on NATO's peaceful character between You and my friend from Serbia...