Make Russia pay NOW

The West must change legislation to allow frozen Russian CBR assets to be used to fund Ukraine and war reparations.

This needs to be done NOW.

No excuses.

No one thought CBR assets could be frozen - it was done;

No one thought Russia could be thrown out of investment indices - it was done;

No one thought Russia could be forced into default - it was done;

No one thought Russian banks could be kicked out of SWIFT - it was done. 

It’s ridiculous to argue it cannot be done because this would undermine property rights in the West. 

Let’s not forget Russia has stolen:

* Ukrainian land - Crimea, Donbas, Zaporizhiya, Kherson;

* Plundered Ukrainian homes of washing machines, TVs, everything that moves;

* Grain, metals out of the port of Mariupol;

* Agricultural farm machinery.

* And most grevious of all hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian citizens, including children, are being stolen in effect and forcibly transported to Russia. This is Stalinist style.

Meanwhile, Russia has killed and maimed hundreds of thousands of innocent Ukrainians and caused hundreds of billions of dollars in damage.

Why should Ukrainian or Western tax payers pay for damage caused by Russia?

And maybe if Russia understood it was going to pick up the bill for its destruction, losing some/all of the $300bn in frozen CBR assets it would be less willing to destruct Ukraine.

Think outside the box - maybe it’s time for a Brady style deal where frozen Russian CBR reserves are used as collateral to underpin Ukrainian debt or it’s futures borrowings. On the day that Russia went into default this could avoid the Info War loss of Ukraine itself going into default which is now looming because of this war.

Make Russia pay NOW!