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In reply to the discussion: Moscow may seize private US assets in Russia if US seizes frozen reserves, says Putin ally [View all]Igel
(35,566 posts)Or corporations with contracts, which Our Democracy specifically exempted from having to sever economic ties? Keep in mind that last bit was passed by a (D) Senate and signed by President Biden.
They could have been immunized by overriding contract law and forced out, but that's now how 2/3 of the deciding authorities voted.
I was anti-Putin when most were pro-"reset". The '80s didn't want their foreign policy back; the '80s foreign policy wanted to be reincarnated in a slightly new form. And in 2009, 2010, 2011, this was butt-obvious. to those with a clue but not a fellow-traveler crew.
ATACMs should have been shipped to Ukraine in 2014.
Options: Veto this measure and uphold (D) decisions from a few years ago or sign it, make some of us glad, and say "we" were wrong.
BTW, in 2014-15 I was promised that the sanctions against Russia might not free Crimea quickly--it would take years--but they would bring Russia to heel and withdrawal. Personally, a decade is a fairly long time. Unless the speaker in this case meant "within centuries."
Sometimes I hope for a "modern heavy bombardment". Were I to have operational control over where the meteoroids splatted down.
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