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[deleted] t1_iydieb9 wrote

Reply to comment by seekknowledge4ever in The EU is looking at seizing $330 billion in frozen Russian assets and investing them — with any profits going to Ukraine by KeenlyFirst

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TROPtastic t1_iydny8s wrote

What would be the legal reasoning to use money confiscated because of Russia's invasion of Ukraine to benefit the EU?

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okvrdz t1_iydo4rq wrote

Most wars don’t have legal reasoning.

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Throwublee t1_iye70ev wrote

They absolutely do, it might just be very twisted.

E: there's a lot of lawyering in war, i heard some podcast about it but I can't remember which one so I googles this article

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auniqueusername132 t1_iyeaido wrote

The Roman’s had a very interesting need to justify all their wars as defensive

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Koa_Niolo t1_iyesrrw wrote

Then when they did declare war they had to announce it by ceremonially hurling a spear from Roman territory into the enemy's territory. Of course this became difficult when they declared war on Epirus and would have needed to hurl the spear across the Adriatic Sea.

So instead they built a column to represent the enemy territory that was then pelted with a spear whenever Rome went to war.

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[deleted] t1_iyeoilv wrote

Yeah super interesting. Dan Carlin talks about it quite a bit in the Celtic Holocaust podcast

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dancingteam t1_iye71hp wrote

We should take money from other countries as well. India, China, the middle east. If their citizens have money in EU we should take it and invest in our own stuff.

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Artanthos t1_iye5047 wrote

They should invest the money into energy companies.

I hear they are paying great dividends.

Side benefit: seats on the boards of the energy companies.

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