Keir Starmer urged to push for Ukraine to get $300bn of frozen Russian assets
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/22/keir-starmer-ukraine-frozen-russian-assets-bill-browder-wef
Posted by ClassicFlavour
Keir Starmer urged to push for Ukraine to get $300bn of frozen Russian assets
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/22/keir-starmer-ukraine-frozen-russian-assets-bill-browder-wef
Posted by ClassicFlavour
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That’s a lot of coppers, Dr’s, nurses, and teachers.!
When will we have a government that actually thinks of the UK first.??
That is not a good idea.
Freezing funds is one thing, stealing is another…
And for context, I very much do not like Russia.
Man I wish we cared half as much about our own country as we do about Ukraine.
Punish Russia, help Ukraine at the same time, without cost for us.
Sounds fucking brilliant
Good idea but America probably get really pissy about it. Or rather, their president will.
Which means, we should definitely do it. Pisses off Putin and Trump at once.
Corruption right there, why when war ending and blackrock already got contact to rebuild or dig up those minerals as that what it’s about for America
We’d do this and then our own courts will say we shouldnt have done it and end up repaying Russia $300bn when the war ends.
Just be sure it won’t be stolen by Ukrainian oligarchs. Control every dollar.
Let’s keep giving the Ukrainian elite cash so they can send their poor to die in the meat grinder.
While it makes everyone feel warm and fuzzy inside pissing all this money away in ten years nobody who has supported it will admit they supported it.
If we wanted to send a statement to Russia we should have deployed troops and equipment into every nato country that borders Russia or Ukraine and advised them that if one single bullet or piece of shrapnel crossed the borders it would be consider a declaration of war. Putin would have pulled his troops back in hours and it wouldn’t have cost billions or hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian lives.
Instead we have spent years paying Ukraine to fight a war that they can not win encouraging them to send wave after wave into no man’s land without a hope of victory or survival.
It might be morally right in how we have handled this till now but when it’s done and history looks back on how it’s been handled I guarantee the sentiment will be similar to how ww1 is viewed.
Brave men being sent to their deaths in a meaningless and avoidable conflict.
This would be a positive step but would rather see that money used to fund Ukraine’s reconstruction.
Which would also be an effective way to entice the millions of Ukrainian refugees to actually return and help rebuild their country— otherwise it’s going to remain decapitated and weakened.
It will all be pocketed by Zelensky and his corrupt cronies
Mmm, probably holding out hoping he can pocket the 300B instead like Switzerland did with the Nazi gold.
Oh yeah 300 billion ear marked for the only country in Europe with comparable levels of corruption to Russia, that will be a great idea I’m sure ))))))