US officials said the assets are needed to help secure a peace deal between Kyiv and Moscow. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.
  • humanspiral@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 days ago

    This is about using illegally frozen Russian assets for loan. Both US and Belgium want to keep control over the funds, and terms where Ukraine only has to repay the loan if Russia begs to pay Ukraine government to accept its reconstruction funds is guaranteed to mean that Ukraine would never have to repay. Seems like performative posturing.

    • FiskFisk33@startrek.websiteEnglish
      31·
      9 hours ago

      I dont know about you, but taking “illegally” siezed Russian assets and using them to fund Ukraines defence against the illegal Russian invasion makes sense to me.

      • humanspiral@lemmy.caEnglish
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        3 hours ago
        1. it is a propaganda based view that Ukraine/“the west” didn’t start the war, and the mere thought of loan is desperation to keep war going. You need to be extremely angry at demonic evil that ever caused you to believe the lies.
        2. the money will 100% never be repaid, because it is not even a “subjugate Ukraine in perpetuity”. It is literally, pretend Russia should repay it.
          3, The decision process is “let’s have an equal EU vote on how Belgium can best corrupt assets that are concentrated under its jurisdiction.” Even before the US tells its slave colonies how best to corrupt funds they hold, Belgium is the first to veto.