I was just thinking about this earlier. It seems like a very good opportunity to get money now, and the consequences from what the regime is doing is likely to leave many more much more vulnerable to be stolen from, including other billionaries, soon as well.
The transit meant that Russia had an incentive to leave some energy infrastructure in Ukraine in place
That’s a good point. If Russia, or the US saying it’s Russia, blows up the infrastructure then it will mean a long term decoupling no matter what anyone wants.
Hopefully China can learn something from this, unlike Russia so far.
The specific process of this matter can be simplified as follows: we borrow US dollars from Saudi Arabia and then “give” them to a third country. The third country repays the US debt and gives us resources. We give Saudi Arabia high-tech products. The US dollars from the third world are accelerated to flow back to the United States, and the US dollar inflation, in turn, accelerates Saudi Arabia’s “borrowing” of US dollars… forming a perfect cycle. Saudi Arabia sells dollars, we get resources, third world countries pay back U.S. debts, Saudi Arabia gets high-tech products, and the United States “gets” dollars… It’s a win-win situation for all parties, and the whole world wins.
As someone who likes a good plan, specially when it’s being petty or returning something to someone who wronged you, I really like the sound of this. lol
I’m more optimistic about France in the near term actually.
Don’t know how exactly that would work out but I agree that this seems possible.
It’s going to take an economic collapse for the Germans to get their heads out of their asses though.
If the war in Ukraine ends wihin the next year or so they might escape that, if Russia doesn’t continue puting pressure on Europe (by helping Yemen/Palestine and the decolonization of Africa, for example) that is.
But if Germany and Europe continue feeling the pressure then things might happen within the next couple of elections, perhaps even before a hard collapse although likely through fascism, so we need to be vigilant.
I’m not so sure I agree.
Even if there is any german company left decades from now they might have sanctioned China by them.
It could be even worse to the EU if the western bourgeoisie who owns the 100B in Russia demands to be repaid for Russia taking their money (which will likely happen as a reaction to such seizing by the EU), and those that own part of the Russian companies that had their funds seized might also demand a cut.
This could mean that the EU only gets about half or less of what they steal, but if they give this money to Ukraine before paying back their own this could just lead to them having to raise another 100B+ from their own population (from my calculations this would be about 1% of total tax collected by the EU, but I might be wrong) to pay that which just makes it all worse for them, specially if the euro loses much value during this while they may need to pay in dollars.
“Illegal” doesn’t mean anything when it comes to these sums of money. And as the head of the regime he can do whatever he wants without “legal” troubles too, as has been shown before. So the only problem is who would he anger by this and who’s support he has, which with the ammount they have likely been making are a lot richer and more supportive than before.