From: Dhu on Gate <campbell@neotext.ca>
Newsgroups: can.politics,alt.politics
Subject: Re: Russian Financial Reparations to Ukraine
Date: Thu, 22 May 2025 00:38:07 -0000 (UTC)
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
On Thu, 22 May 2025 00:33:25 -0000 (UTC), Dhu on Gate wrote:
> Sooo. It looks like the Ukes and Ruskies are talking to each other
> again,
> despite Zlinksky's Constitutional Prohibition. Mebbe some common sense
> has siezed hold of Ukraine or mebbe it's just the talks brilliant
> setting in the City has afflicted them with some situational reality but
> they've swapped some prisoners and are working out the agendae for
> further talks.
>
> The Russian's have 3 hard positions: no NATO, no NAZIs and no return of
> Russian speaking territories.
>
> So I'm guessing the return of seized Russian assets of around â¬200 bils
> isn't such a beeg issue: the Ruble is backed by industrial metals, no
> just gold (nickel, chrome, zinc ... tantalum)
... Tungsten ... Radioatomics ...
so they may not care so
> much.
>
> So it seems to me that money would be best spent, by the Russians, on
> Repairing the damages to Ukraine's economy *to their liking*.
>
> And of course they'd buy lots of crap from Eurostan, especially from van
> DerLeyden's bosses in Rheinmetall: to build back better ;-)
>
> Dhu
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