Originally Posted by
Taksin
That's the point. Its hypocrisy. The state did not object when he was investing billions of pounds in the country. He has broken no law. There is no law being used to strip him of his assets. It is lawlessness. Just because everyone is doing it doesn't make it right.
Plus, tactically its stupid. Other investors of other regimes will now see that their assets can be stripped at the drop of a hat. I think 38% of Russia's gold is in Europe. If everyone else tries to take their gold out of Europe, it will create a run on the banks. Given that our governments are essentially bankrupt, that's the last thing we need.
Plus we are messing with the energy supply, which will seriously hurt us in the coming months and years. Who knows the outcome.
Plus we are backing Putin into a corner. That corner means he will partner with the Chinese against us (and if he loses, for any reason, it could lead to nuclear war). There are diplomatic solutions and they are being shut down because we are too stupid to recognise we have played a major role in causing this.
What "diplomatic solutions' would those be, exactly?
So far Putin's "diplomacy" has consisted of inviting Ukranians to have talks, while using the time to continue to pound their country with more bombings.
And then humanitarian corridors are proposed to allow non-combatant Ukranians to leave or go to safer parts of the country, and he then proceeds to bomb those corridors.
Or only allow pathways to lead to Russia or to his ally Belarus, from which his staging the invasion.
How is that diplomacy?
And this is aside from the fact that in the weeks leading up to the invasion, every world leader under the sun from Macron to the German Chancellor pleaded with him not to invade Ukraine, even assuring him that Ukraine wouldn't be allowed to join NATO anytime in the near future - with the Ukrainians themselves even offering to commit to not applying for membership.
At this point, since no one seems to really know what he wants out of all this (even his own generals, it seems), it begs the question of what the aim of dimplmatic talks would actually be?
To help him establish a puppet government in Ukraine?
To add Ukraine to its borders as another Russian province?
And how is he going to run that with an Economy in tatters at home?
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