Russia-Ukraine Invasion

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  • Continuity4

    Probably behind a pay wall, but ... yeah, now we're talking.

    'Canada giving itself power to turn over seized assets to victims'

    https://www.theglobeandmail.com/…

    From the article:

    '[...] the Canadian government says it plans to give itself the power to sell off assets of foreigners seized under sanctions law, and then turn them over to affected victims or pay for rebuilding war-torn countries.

    This could mean, for instance, that funds or property seized from Russia could be paid out to help reconstruct Ukraine or to compensate those affected by Moscow’s military assault on its neighbour.

    The change would make Canada the first among Group of Seven countries to allow such actions.'

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    • When this is all done, Russia's giving all of its hydrocarbon profits for the next decade(s) to rebuild Ukraine.Nairn
    • With any luck, anyway.Continuity
    • What happens if Russia breaks up into smaller countries? Which one is to be held responsibledrgs
    • There's always a success state, e.g.:
      Yugoslavia > Serbia      Continuity
    • *successorContinuity
    • after the war is over ukraine buys new stuff from the west with assets the west seized from russia?uan
    • I'm starting to think, this war is the trigger to destroy the global financial system as we know it.uan
    • About as much as covid was a ruse to force everyone into a cashless society..Nairn
    • Don't get excited yet. This bill also targets cryptocurrency and NFTs and allows the government to compel "“any person to provide ...any information”monNom
    • Which is a pretty big departure from the narrow framing of "selling seized russian assets".monNom
    • I mean, how do you find "russian owned" crypto? It's anonymous. The only way would be to de-anonymize it by forcing Canadians to claim ownership of their tokensmonNom
    • I think crypto is (probably) bullshit, but this government sure does like to give itself extra-judicial powers.monNom
    • crypto you hold in a bank or trading platform isn't anonymous. but you can store it in the blockchain yourself, refuse to tell the passphrase and keep it.uan
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