UK Demands Russian Oligarch's 'Blood Money,' Ignores Its Own
The British government, ever the arbiter of global morality when it suits, is reportedly ready to drag Abramovich to court if he doesn't cough up his £2.3 billion for Ukraine. They're demanding 'justice' for war victims, which sounds righteous until you consider the UK's own record. This is a government selling billions in weaponry to countries bombing Yemen into oblivion—countries like Saudi
Arabia, a key purchaser of UK arms, whose conflict in Yemen has directly led to hundreds of thousands of deaths and a humanitarian catastrophe. There's no 'court' for the UK's role in *that*. One might wonder where this sudden moral rectitude for seizing ill-gotten gains was when British banks laundered fortunes from various repressive regimes for decades. Or when UK 'soft power' facilitated the
very accumulation of wealth they now deem dirty. It appears 'blood money' only counts when it's Russian, and the 'victims' are conveniently aligned with current geopolitical interests. This isn't justice; it's selective outrage, weaponized to score political points while actual war profiteers in their own ranks continue business as usual.