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He says freezing about $300 billion in Russian assets undermines the credibility of the Western financial system and the U.S. dollar as a source of imperial power.
Jiang argues that Europe and NATO cannot politically withstand admitting defeat in Ukraine because they have frozen Russian assets, sold their populations a march-to-Moscow narrative, and would face a political earthquake if they confessed that the war was lost.
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.
Alexander says Saudi Arabia is repeatedly warning Europeans not to seize the assets and that this pressure is already having an effect.
Alexander says France has, up to that point, opposed outright seizure in part because of the scale of Saudi investments.
"...can just collect reparations from Russia. They froze $200 billion of Russian assets in European banks. So they cannot afford to lose the war...."
"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..."
"...that the Western financial system has frozen about $300 billion in Russian assets. That's essentially just stealing. And that basically undermines the credibility of..."
"...system. It also ordered Europeans to freeze over $200 billion in Russian assets. And this is a problem, because it's the very basis for..."
"...right after the Russians invaded Ukraine, froze over $200 billion in Russian assets. Which makes the world question the legitimacy as well as the..."
"...removed Russia from the SWIFT system. They froze $20 billion in Russian assets. They did a lot of things. But none of these things..."
"...blown up. The Americans and the Europeans confiscated $200 billion of Russian assets. All right. They're still frozen today. And the point was to..."
"...that they did was split in theft, where $300 billion of Russian assets were seized by the Europeans and the Americans. $300 billion still..."
"...which was really stupid, was it basically seized $200 billion in Russian assets. So this is money. that the Russian central bank had stored..."
"...do with the 210 billion euros that it has frozen or Russian assets that are frozen. They're mostly sitting in Belgium right now. Run..."
"...debt for the United States. We also see Europe itself stealing Russian assets. They just permanently froze them as some kind of big win..."
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