He argues that if Europe confiscates the assets, it trades away legal and banking credibility in the eyes of investors for a one-time war-financing gain.
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Jiang says European leadership looks directionless, still acts as if it can go all in on a lost Ukraine war, and therefore gives investors little reason to trust Europe's future.
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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"Yeah, so what I want to say, and I agree with this analysis, is that 210 plus billion dollars, it's a trap for Europe...."
"Yeah, so the first comment I would make is that there's a limit to how much gold and silver can go up because you're..."
"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..."
"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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