This is a really stupid idea, and like most stupid ideas, it has enthusiastic support in Washington. From Dave DeCamp at antiwar.com:
The bipartisan legislation was introduced in both the House and Senate
A bipartisan group of US lawmakers introduced a piece of legislation on Thursday that would give President Biden the power to confiscate frozen Russian Central Bank assets and send them to Ukraine.
The Rebuilding Economic Prosperity and Opportunity (REPO) for Ukrainians Act was introduced in both the House and the Senate. According to the House Foreign Affairs Committee, the legislation would “provide additional assistance to Ukraine using assets confiscated from the Central Bank of the Russian Federation and other sovereign assets of the Russian Federation.”
The US Justice Department has authorized the transfer of some private Russian assets to Ukraine, but taking funds from the Russian Central Bank would mark a significant escalation of Washington’s economic war against Moscow. Hundreds of billions of dollars in Russian Central Bank assets have been frozen by the US and its allies.
The legislation would also instruct President Biden to “work with allies and partners to establish an international compensation mechanism to transfer confiscated or frozen Russian sovereign assets to assist Ukraine.” European countries have been discussing the idea of using Russian assets to provide more funds for Ukraine, including investing the assets and sending Kyiv the returns.
why not? they have been stealing our assets and giving them to that corruptocracy for a very long time.
stealing from us, or stealing from Russia: stealing is what they do best, followed by giving the proceeds to their ‘friends’, who then kick back good portions to those who stole it all in the first place.
the proposal is just more of the same albeit with a different ‘donor’.
Both Biden and Zelensky regimes ares Kleptocracies so it’s what you’d expect. Is the US government going to pay for the cost of restoring the Nova Kakhovka they blew up and all the downstream properties that were wrecked as a result? What about the cost of restoring the Nordstream pipline they blew up?