Is Appropriating Russian Central Bank Reserves to Fund Ukraine Even a Question?
Besides Who Cares What Undemocratic, Unfree Backwaters in the “Global South”— Such as Saudi Arabia, Brazil, Indonesia, Turkey, and South Africa— Think of Us?
You begin to see why more people are seriously considering the idea of seizing the frozen assets of Russia’s central bank for Ukraine’s use, which was proposed last summer by my Hoover Institution colleague Philip Zelikow, along with Larry Summers and Bob Zoellick. As things stand, the Biden administration is holding off, to ensure that confiscated Russ…
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