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You know it has to be a monumentally dumb idea when even Bloomberg says that seizing Russia’s Central Bank funds is illegal and unwise (www.bloomberg.com)
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Basically what it comes down to is that this move will completely destroy trust in western financial system. If the west starts seizing foreign assets without any legal basis, then keeping money in western banks starts being a huge risk.

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[-] davel@lemmygrad.ml 24 points 10 months ago

No wonder many capitalists are backing Trump, if only to jettison the neocons’ perpetual blowback machine.

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