Can we Take Russian Money Held Abroad and Give it to Ukraine?
Simon Whistler · February 14, 2024 · 21 min video · Europe & NATO
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Right now, as you watch from the comforts of your home, a Russian bomb is falling on Ukrainian cities, destroying factories, homes, infrastructure, all of it, very expensive to rebuild. At the same time, hundreds of millions of dollars of frozen Russian assets continue to be held by Western nations, enough, perhaps, to rebuild Ukraine's shattered economy.
There's perhaps no surprise there that a whole lot of people are put to and to together and declared jackpot.
In an era when Western funding for Kiev is more uncertain than ever, the idea of confiscating frozen Russian assets and handing them over to Ukraine looks like a bit of an easy solution, one that will punish the aggressor while helping Ukraine stave off financial collapse. But is it really so simple?
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