From China to Saudi Arabia, countries want the EU to reject pressure to confiscate over €200 billion of Russian assets.
Countries sympathetic to Russia are demanding the EU drop any notion it might have about a wholesale confiscation of Moscow’s state assets.
Representatives of China, Saudi Arabia and Indonesia are privately pushing the EU to continue resisting pressure from the U.S. and U.K. to seize more than €200 billion of Russian state assets it immobilized after February 2022’s invasion of Ukraine to help Kyiv’s reconstruction efforts, four officials with knowledge of the proceedings told POLITICO.
“These countries are very skeptical about the idea,” said one of the officials, granted anonymity because the talks are so sensitive. The concern is, “this would create a precedent” ― in other words, these countries would fear they could be next to lose out.
Hmmmm why are they afraid that they could be next? Is it because their countries are run by dictators that have committed genocide?
More likely they fear it’s going to be a problem for the genocide they want to commit in the future
The West is perfectly fine supporting genocide so long as you only do it in your own country or in a country The West is not interested in.
I don’t think it’s genocides we have a problem with. We’ve committed and supported our own atrocities.