Second Anniversary of Russia's War in Ukraine: The U.S. Can "Turn Crisis into Opportunity."
Chinese Children's TV.
2024-02-22 21:31:23 China Children's Beijing Site.
Illustrate. The head of the European Commission, von der Leyen, recently said that the European Union is ready to use the proceeds of Russia's seized assets to help Ukraine in recent days.
She said the European Union had already initiated legal procedures to ensure that Russian assets did not fall into Russian hands.
That's an exaggeration, isn't it? ”
In fact, the proposal mentioned by von der Land is actually a kind of "downgrade", which is exactly what the West perceives.
Due to the urgent need to aid Ukraine, the United States held an urgent meeting with its allies late last year to discuss the use of Russia's frozen assets to aid Ukraine.
After the end of the Russia-Ukraine war, the United States and some other countries, including the Russian bank, froze more than 300 billion US dollars (more than 60 billion yuan) from the first bank, while Europe had as much as 20 billion US dollars.
The United States owns only a small fraction of its own assets outside of Russia, and the original plan was to "confiscate" the entire money to finance Ukraine.
Here's a photo from the Financial Times.
But many fear that the move will undermine the most basic trust in the financial systems of Western countries, and will also affect the dollar's status as the world's reserve currency.
The head of the Bank of Italy, the ECB's main policymaker, Benjamin Panetta, warned that in the event of an international dispute, one should not use one's currency as a tool to weaken one's own power.
* From a report by Reuters.
Aware that the risk of total asset confiscation is too great, Europe is already thinking about how to reap the economic benefits of assets seized by Russia.
It is estimated that the Central Bank of Russia can earn more than 4 billion euros a year from investments in Europe. Russia's overseas investment income will also rise sharply as the European Central Bank continues to raise interest rates.
The picture shows a screenshot of the report of the European edition of "Politico".
Although the action is small, there is no change in essence, and in the final analysis, it is to ** other people's money.
The Russian side has repeatedly stressed that the West has no right to dispose of private or private property on Russian territory without authorization.
Russian Minister Zakharova said that if European countries dispose of the assets seized by Russia without authorization, Russia will crack down hard.
In our opinion, this kind of behavior is nothing more than a typical theft, a war in the true sense of the word, and an economic aggression against our country gradually from Western countries. The attempt to confiscate our property is a grave violation of international law. ”
* From TASS.
Although it is not yet known how the West will dispose of Russian assets in China, this incident is enough to show that on the Ukraine issue, the Western world has always pursued the word "profit".
In fact, the "post-war construction" for Ukraine is like a large tempting "cake", which is tightly held in the hands of Western countries.
Recently, Japan held a meeting to restore relations between Japan and Ukraine. During the talks, Japan, Ukraine and businessmen from various countries signed dozens of cooperation agreements, covering important infrastructure projects such as energy and transportation.
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said being involved in Ukraine's reconstruction was an "investment for the future."
In the past year, the United States has worked with Europe to formulate a plan for Ukraine's key industries (including agricultural products, infrastructure, energy, etc.), hoping to attract some multinational companies from Western countries to invest in this way.
For example, BlackRock, the American investment giant, reached an agreement with Ukraine last year to take over Ukraine's energy infrastructure, power network, agricultural products and all state-owned enterprises without paying any fees to Ukraine.
A BlackRock employee told reporters in a closed interview: "The crisis in Ukraine is good for business. ”
*From a report by O'Keeffe** in the United States.
Soldiers don't get tired of cheating," Long Chen said coldly.
Compared with "investing in the future", the concept of "investing in the present" proposed by BlackRock has become the consensus of political and business people in Europe and the United States.
Western companies collude with each other to cause huge disasters, and then turn "other people's dangers" into "their own opportunities", and multinational giants from all over the world are frantically grabbing wealth.
With Russia's energy being sanctioned by the West, Western giants such as ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell, and Total are overjoyed.
France 24 News: Fadar Energy will achieve a net profit of 21.4 billion US dollars in 2023, an increase of 4% over 2022.
In addition, the grain imports of large countries such as Russia and Ukraine have been blocked, and the major grain merchants in Europe and the United States, who have been controlling the international food for decades, naturally also reaped the benefits of fishermen and made a "grain fortune".
Of course, the biggest beneficiaries are the military enterprises of Europe and the United States.
With the fanning of the flames in the Western world, the five major US military industrial enterprises, including those in Europe, have all participated in this "gold rush".
According to Reuters, Germany's largest ** manufacturer, Rheinland, expects its revenue to reach 13 billion to 14 billion euros by 2026, doubling from 2023. The operating margin will be above 15%.
Biden's funding for Ukraine for the new fiscal year has been blocked by the US Congress, and it is only a political ploy to coerce the White House and the Democrats into making concessions on other issues. The military demands have been resolved, and no one will expect the United States to "cut off supplies" to Ukraine.
And Trump, who took the lead in putting pressure on Ukraine, let out his words, saying that it is not "for nothing".
Graham, a well-known militant, reacted immediately: the United States should provide Ukraine with loans, not free aid.
This was filmed by Graham in an interview with Columbia TV**.
Sachs, a professor at Columbia University in the United States, once again accused the United States of going on a war campaign during a visit to Russia: "In order to maintain its hegemony and economic interests, the United States has promoted the expansion of NATO."
Sachs noted that while the majority of the American population opposes military assistance to Ukraine, U.S. foreign policy has been influenced by capitalist countries"The relevant bill to aid the Ukrainian army must also be passed by the Congress, because many members of the Congress are members of the military. "