Cool. I guess. Ukraine won't see a ruble out of Russia's coffers, so this is purely symbolic. And it's hard to really read the tea leaves on what it even means.

[–] guojing@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 years ago

They already froze 300 billion usd of Russian assets. This is their excuse to steal the money and put it in their own pockets.

[–] knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It would take cues from the last hundred years of US imperial debt strategy, from the Allied loans and German reparations of WWI up to IMF austerity-and-neoliberalism-by-force. It will be structured to turn Russia into a US capitalist controlled vassal state, and in order to repay it Russia's natural resources will have to be turned over to the west.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 years ago

That's the wet dream that neocons have. Unfortunately for them, Russia proved that it's able to decouple from the west while the west is struggling without Russian commodities.

[–] vekku@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

They might, since a lot of countries have seized Russian assets all over the world. Many countries have suggested giving those assets to Ukraine as payment for the crimes they have suffered. But real reparations, actually honestly paid by Russia, are probably a bit of a pipe dream.

I think it's still important to show them and the world how barbaric their actions are, even if they themselves end up just ignoring them. Like here, this place seems sometimes a very sad place with lots of utterly lost people, but if we keep telling the truth, perhaps one or two tankies eventually will gain reason. The value of such a thing shouldn't be understated.

[–] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 2 years ago

Where are you from buddy?

[–] CountryBreakfast@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Oh look. The capitalist dog is barking at tankies.