Cool, does this set the precedent for US and NATO being held accountable for all the countries they destroyed?
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Also, all the people Ukraine has been killing in the Donbass since 2014.
I believed they're referred to as orcs in western media parlance.
Why do none of these ever list the resolution identifier so we can see what the votes were?
The most interesting aspect of this story is that only a minority of states is actually supporting the resolution.
Most interesting is the fact that no nation actually blocked the resolution.
Because the resolution is meaningless and there is nothing to block. Otherwise Russia would've blocked it themselves as they've previously done.
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.
They already froze 300 billion usd of Russian assets. This is their excuse to steal the money and put it in their own pockets.
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.
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.
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.
Where are you from buddy?
Oh look. The capitalist dog is barking at tankies.