West's 'Rules-Based Order' Finds Russia Suing Over Stolen Cash
Russia, in a move that seems to genuinely surprise Western media, is suing Euroclear over hundreds of billions in frozen assets. While the FT presents this as a 'first shot across the bows' against plans to fund Ukraine, it's a legal challenge to what many international legal scholars have called a dubious seizure, at best. Funny how 'rules-based order' applies only when it benefits one side,
isn't it? One might recall the multi-billion dollar seizures of Iranian assets, or even Afghanistan's central bank funds, similarly repurposed without due process. Suddenly, Russia daring to question the legality of unilateral asset confiscation—a move that fundamentally undermines trust in international financial systems—is presented as the real outrage. The hypocrisy is so thick, you could
freeze it and fund a small country with the proceeds.