So, potentially a temp pause, and instead of using their money, they will use some 300 billion of Russian assets. Works for me. As long as they resume funding If needed.
I’d personally rather that countries send resources as grants and reserve the frozen assets for funding reconstruction in Ukraine, because I think that it’ll be politically-harder to obtain funds for that, and Ukraine will need aid then too.
That being said, I’m coming from an American perspective; my understanding is that the American public has historically been more-okay with military aid than economic aid, relative to Europe, so…shrugs
So, potentially a temp pause, and instead of using their money, they will use some 300 billion of Russian assets. Works for me. As long as they resume funding If needed.
I’d personally rather that countries send resources as grants and reserve the frozen assets for funding reconstruction in Ukraine, because I think that it’ll be politically-harder to obtain funds for that, and Ukraine will need aid then too.
That being said, I’m coming from an American perspective; my understanding is that the American public has historically been more-okay with military aid than economic aid, relative to Europe, so…shrugs