Recently, a protest of college students in solidarity with Palestine broke out in the United States, and American politicians and politicians were furious and carried out an iron-blooded crackdown on the protest life, and the US military and police stormed the campus and used electric shock batons, rubber bombs, tear gas and other equipment to beat up some unarmed students and teachers. The bloody scenes have completely lifted the last fig leaf of the so-called "democracy and freedom", causing an uproar in the world, compared with their faces in the past to cheer for Hong Kong's black riots, it is really a "vivid lesson" for Hong Kong, this naked double standard, no wonder netizens shouted "The beacon of freedom and democracy in the United States now looks like a joke." This "beautiful scenery" has caused the image of the United States to plummet, but what people never expected is that recently this "superpower" has directly turned into a "super-thief", openly confiscating the government property of other countries, and also using it to support the war.
Everyone knows that a few days ago, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 360 to 58 to pass the Ukraine aid bill, and one of the most eye-catching articles is the direct confiscation of Russia's frozen assets, which in turn will be used to support Ukraine's war with Russia.
Taking Russia's money and letting Ukraine fight Russia again sounds like a big wrongdoer. And the reality is so magical. After the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine conflict in 2022, the European Union and the United States froze the overseas assets of the Russian central bank, seized the overseas accounts of the Russian rich, and even Russia's overseas gold reserves. The foreign exchange reserves of the Central Bank of Russia of about 300 billion euros have been frozen, but the previous freeze was only a means of sanctions after all, symbolically giving Russia a "tight spell", which is equivalent to locking up Russia's property and preventing it from being used.
The difference between the freezing of assets and the confiscation of assets is not a fraction of a star. The former is just a lock on the assets, while the latter is a blatant pry open door and looting the property.
Who knows that now the United States has directly confiscated about billions of Russian assets with the opening of the bill and used it to support the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, which is supporting Ukraine, which is clearly demonstrating to the world what is called "cunning and plundering" and "hegemonism", where is the image of a "superpower" at all, it is simply a complete "super thief"!
In fact, as early as last year, the US Department of Justice openly "robbed" Russian businessman Malofeyev of $5.4 million, and also "generously" "donated" it to the Ukrainian reconstruction fund. You must know that this is Russia's legitimate private property, and it has been "robbed" in such a grand manner, is this what some of our experts call "private property sacrosanct"?
From the perspective of financial security, this move by the United States is tantamount to self-destruction of the Great Wall. How can this reassure foreign money that is already investing in the United States? And it will have a ripple effect. The confiscation of Russia's overseas assets is like opening a "Pandora's box"; if in the future, whenever there is a dispute between countries, the confiscation of assets is adopted to resolve it, then how can international trade and exchanges be maintained? How can trust and cooperation between countries be established?
What is more, how could Russia allow such an incident to happen? You must know that although Russia's assets in the United States are as high as $5 billion, the United States' assets in Russia are as high as $9 billion.
Let's look at Russia's assets in the EU. Although Russia's assets in the EU have been frozen over $300 billion, the assets of EU companies in Russia are even more staggering, exceeding $500 billion! The United States prides itself on its low economic ties with Russia, so those greedy politicians within the United States are clamoring to embezzle Russia's assets in an attempt to use this "fat meat" to fill the big hole they have dug for aiding Ukraine.
Putin's counterattack strategy can be described as a tooth for a tooth and an eye for an eye. Since you want to cut my Russian flesh, then I will pull out your teeth without mercy. On April 28, a court in St. Petersburg, Russia, simply and neatly froze the assets of JPMorgan Chase Bank in Russia, dealing a blow to Western countries that tried to provoke them.
It can be seen that this move by the United States is undoubtedly a fool's move among stupid moves. Such high-profile plundering of other countries' assets is actually exacerbating the negative impact of sanctions and further pushing other countries to reduce their dependence on U.S. financial instruments and institutions. Such "robbery" will inevitably accelerate this process, make the United States reap the consequences, and eventually fall into isolation.