Those citizens should overthrow the guy whose causing them to lose their livelihoods. if Russia doesn’t need to justify its invasion of Ukraine and shelling of those civilians, the west doesn’t need to justify its confiscation of Russian property and its economic sanctions against those civilians.
What does it mean to have "frozen" 400 billion in Russian assets that Putin counted on as a rainy day fund? Putin had these assets OUTSIDE of Russia to use as a rainy day fund? For whom
American government has used frozen foreign assets all the time. Assets from Iran, North Korea. And recently $7BB of Afghanistan. That is just insane to take money from a poor country where ordinary people are dying from hunger and cold.
What difference it makes? If Putin never returns from Ukraine, the money will be frozen forever. And some Western governments may just use that money to buy arms to send to Ukraine and let fighting to continue. This has happened with the frozen assets from Syria, Iran and probably Libya too. Taking other nations' money, particularly from private citizens are really absurd. The free world always talks about "laws and orders". Wonder what laws they cite now to take private assets. Even "freeze" the ownership of a large sport club.
It means you still own it and your property rights are respected so other people invest in your market instead of markets where it is confiscated.
https://money.usnews.com/investing/...uses-to-supply-aircraft-parts-after-sanctions No spare parts for Russian planes. And no, neither India nor Turkey will supply them, since Boeing/Airbus will then stop supplying the parts to them as well. Of course there may be some smuggling. Good luck maintaining your fleet of stolen planes with smuggled parts.