President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has called on Ukraine’s partners to create a legal framework for the use of frozen Russian assets to support Ukraine.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has called on Ukraine’s partners to create a legal framework for the use of frozen Russian assets to support Ukraine.

Source: Volodymyr Zelenskyy on X (Twitter)

Quote: “The decision to use frozen Russian assets to support Ukraine will be an entirely just and legitimate response to Russia’s aggression against Ukraine. It will send the right message to all would-be aggressors around the world: attacking another state does not pay off; it makes the aggressor pay. I encourage partners to move quickly on relevant legal frameworks. This year, we must achieve tangible progress toward using frozen Russian assets for the benefit of Ukraine. We firmly rely on G7 leadership on this matter.”

  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.worldEnglish
    310·
    10 months ago

    As Russia has seized Western property in the country, we can’t be accused of firing the first metaphorical shot

    Ah yes, the “he did the bad thing so I get to do the same” school of kindergarten statecraft 🙄

    as the money is proposed to go directly to Ukraine’s war effort, there’s little room for serious accusations of opportunistic profiteering.

    Yeah, PROPOSED to. You think that the Ukrainian government has magically become the picture of efficiency and free of corruption? Hell, even if not a single kopek is used on anything but the war efforts, who’s to say that there’s not going to be graft there, like there is in every war?

    my point is that there is precedent for this behavior. It’s not new or unheard of, it’s not opening Pandora’s Box.

    Is that why you had to go back 80 years to find an example involving it being done to the most uncontroversally evil empire in the history of humanity? Because it’s such a regular thing that countries routinely do in case of hostility?

    • PugJesus@kbin.social
      72·
      10 months ago

      Ah yes, the “he did the bad thing so I get to do the same” school of kindergarten statecraft 🙄

      I’m not saying it as a “He did it so I get to do it too!” excuse, I’m saying it as a point that it can’t be reasonably seen as unprovoked.

      Yeah, PROPOSED to. You think that the Ukrainian government has magically become the picture of efficiency and free of corruption? Hell, even if not a single kopek is used on anything but the war efforts, who’s to say that there’s not going to be graft there, like there is in every war?

      I’m not saying there’s not going to be any corruption or graft with all money sent to Ukraine. I’m saying that accusations of the countries seizing the money simply profiteering become significantly weaker when the money is not actually going to the country that is seizing the money.

      Is that why you had to go back 80 years to find an example involving it being done to the most uncontroversally evil empire in the history of humanity? Because it’s such a regular thing that countries routinely do in case of hostility?

      Libya is the most recent war where asset seizure occurred by Western countries that I can think of. Iraq before that. I believe Vietnam and North Korea didn’t have their assets tied up in US-friendly countries.