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Let them try. I think it's bait, a trap purposely laid by the Russians. If they do it, it will be the biggest poison pill of all time. It would kill the credibility of the European financial system.
Russia would seize billions worth of European assets still in Russia, and they would file lawsuits across multiple jurisdictions, not all of which will be under EU or US control.
Honestly it would shatter the liberal ideology to its very core, it would be enough schadenfreude to sustain me as like europe's economy returns to the stone age.
I agree, stealing Russian assets would be the single biggest blunder of the war. Aside from Russia retaliating, the bigger outcome would be that nobody would ever invest in EU again. And doing things like trying to seize Nexperia isn't helping either. Why would anybody invest money in the EU when you assets can just be seized on whim using some flimsy pretext.
I dunno how intentional this was on Kremlin's part, but yeah - I would be over here praying the EU does this if I still believed in God.