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EU is fuming about Belgium not willing to use frozen Russian asset money to further fund Ukraine. Basically the only good thing our government is doing now.
The best part it that Belgium isn’t refusing outright. They are just demanding that the EU agree to pay the damages in any law suits and the EU is saying “we can’t take on that risk.” So the EU knows it is illegal and would get them sued but they want the Belgians to take the fall.
I swear when NATO breaks up Europe is going to be a slaughter house as all these petty grievances will have nothing holding them back.
How, how are liberals able to square freezing capital and then spending someone elses capital? This feels like it would destroy the illusion the state respects property
It would. It is also illegal and I believe Russia would be in their right to demand payments once war would stop. So it’s only natural for Belgium to not want to face a 165 billion repayment to Russia at one point.