Better to wait for more dead Ukrainians?
are protected under international law, which must be respected.
Russia forfeit any expectation of normalcy under international law the moment they began unilaterally seizing territory from Ukraine, after having already propped up puppet regimes in northern Georgia.
“If we have the good lawyers, the good system, the support of the G7, the 27 member states and all of them ready to take the responsibility with Belgium, it can go quickly,” she said. “Ask the others. Are they ready?”
That’s a cop out, knowing full well that it won’t pass as long as the EU has even one country led by a fascist like Orbán.
I think encryption makes a good analogy here. Which service would you trust more - the one that hands over the decryption key whenever someone is accused of wrongdoing, or the one that refuses no matter what?
Not touching those frozen assets isn’t about sympathy for Russia. It’s about maintaining trust in the system itself. The moment you break that principle “just this once,” you show the world that the rules only apply until they don’t - and from then on, nobody’s money is truly safe.
Fuckers, how many Ukrainian deaths need to be on your hands before you’re ‘ready’?
