A dear friend requested that I do a summary of the stories we missed because of the donation drive. Fortunately, there really isn’t much important stuff that happened.
The one story that does actually matter is this one.
Reuters (December 28):
G7 leaders will discuss a new legal theory that would enable the seizure of $300 billion in frozen Russian assets when they meet in February, two sources familiar with the plans and a British official said on Thursday.
U.S. and UK officials have worked in recent months to jumpstart efforts to confiscate Russian assets immobilized in Belgium and other European cities, and hope Group of Seven leaders agree to issue a stronger statement when they meet in late February, around the second anniversary of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, the three sources said.
lol
They literally want to do some kind of big spectacle in February – on the 22nd – to “send a message.”
The discussion takes place as U.S. President Joe Biden faces Republican opposition to his request for another $61 billion in aid to Ukraine, with U.S. officials warning of dire consequences for the Ukraine war effort.
The United States, backed by the UK, Japan and Canada, has proposed that G7 working groups develop options for G7 leaders, the sources said, but cautioned against expecting “an actual announcement” about asset seizures at the late February meeting.
The new legal theory would allow asset seizures in “very specific circumstances” involving an aggressor country, one of the sources said.
The “very specific” circumstance of the 37th military conflict in the territory of the former USSR?
Russia arguably took Chechnya*, they took parts of Georgia, and they even took part of the Ukraine in 2014.
The Azeris, with the blessing of the Jews, just recently seized an Armenian territory and ethnically cleansed it.
If we’re talking about invasions – how many countries has the US invaded since the end of World War II? What were the reasons?
Further, and perhaps most prominently: What about Israel?
“The U.S. has been able to develop a legal theory for how Russia could be held accountable that we think will be held up internationally in the courts and will be widely recognized as legitimate,” the source said.
No decisions had been made, and several countries – including the United States and Britain – would require legislative changes to establish the needed authorities to carry out such seizures, two of the sources said.
They would need to alter the fundamentals underlying the entire international monetary system. But they already did it once by “freezing” this $300 billion.
Every single financial expert is saying not to do this. It is totally insane. But these people running the US government are like fags wanting to do the next transgressive thing.
This is the “double anal” of geopolitics.
The way the US controls the world is through the American dollar. If that falls, the empire falls.
Now, every country in the world, aside from the US client states in Europe, has a reason to push for a new currency.
It’s so wild because like, Russia doesn’t have the money now. They already took the money.
I hate to have to say it. But you all know the thing.
I doubt they will take the money and give it to the Ukraine for the war. Maybe they will do it for some “rebuilding effort” (AKA “flooding the country with blacks”). But I think the war is over. There just aren’t enough men to fight it, even if they had the money.
Also, if they wanted it, they could get it from Congress.
Footnotes
*That would be a complex argument, but I think one that the West would definitely make and has been made: that Chechnya had a right to secede and Russia stopped that, therefore they stole Chechnya. To be clear, I don’t support that argument, but I also don’t support the Ukraine. I am simply saying that there were a lot of conflicts that resulted from the collapse of the USSR, and the US started a massive war that’s killed hundreds of thousands of people over what was otherwise more or less a routine border skirmish among nation-states that were formed after an empire collapsed.