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Jiang says the 2022 sanctions on Russia and the seizure of Russian assets exposed the legal insecurity of storing wealth in the dollar system and pushed states toward gold.
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Asset seizure
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "dollars, but you know what? Forget that. Forget that. Where U.S. dollar will not be pegged to anything, okay? So too bad. Just imagine..."
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Alexander says that freezing Russian assets is already damaging, but outright seizure would be a much more serious step because it would amount to openly confiscating and stealing assets.
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Alexander says that seizing Russian assets would cross an even brighter red line and would shake and alarm people around the world.
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"dollars, but you know what? Forget that. Forget that. Where U.S. dollar will not be pegged to anything, okay? So too bad. Just imagine..."
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"And not only that, but the Americans used their financial system, they weaponized the financial system in order to sanction Russia. And the classic..."
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"that uh super chat elsa says alex you said that stealing russian assets scares investors but isn't freezing the isn't isn't the freezing already..."
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"but actually seizing it is a further step beyond that and if if you start doing that if you are actually confiscating outright stealing..."
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Mercouris opens by asking for predictive geopolitics rather than another issue-by-issue panel, and Jiang answers by folding Ukraine, Europe, Iran, China, and domestic American disorder into one machine.
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