The US has officially rejected plans to transfer $140 billion of Russian frozen assets to Ukraine!
The roots of this matter have to be found in the acne-filled land of Donbass, which since the Crimea events in 2014 has become a barrel of Russian-Ukrainian contradictions, and coal resources are competing for the conflict between Russian-Ukrainian ethnic groups, and the fire has not really stopped.
Pro-Russian armed troops and Ukrainian government troops fought the millennium steel factory in Mariupol, which once produced tens of millions of tons of steel a year, and turned the Donetsk airport into “the world’s largest open-air grave”, with people either fleeing home to Kiev or Russia, or breathing in the basement with compressed cookies and rain.
The eight-year conflict has caused more than 14,000 casualties, the hatred on this land is like wild grass, and it has become the spark of the situation completely out of control, the Russian and European parties want to tighten their geographic code here.
Recently, the international wind has suddenly changed. Some EU countries and conservatives in the United States have begun to collectively build momentum, forcing Zelensky to "cease fire on the spot". Anyone with a discerning eye can see that this is not a sincere persuasion for peace-the current front happens to be stuck in the industrial core area of eastern Ukraine. A ceasefire is tantamount to permanently giving up strategic locations such as Donbas and Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plants to Russia, admitting a fait accompli in disguise.
U.S. Vice President Wences made a clear choice of words, and after Washington's talks with the foreign ministers of Ukraine, he made public statements calling for them to "face the reality and recognize Russia's sovereignty over Crimea."
This exit is equivalent to a knife in the heart of Zelensky – Crimea for Ukraine is not only a territory of 2.5% of the territory, but also a historical mark of the Ukrainian cultural circle before joining Tsarist Russia in 1783, when Russia annexed in 2014 the United Nations General Assembly had with 96 votes in favour adopted a resolution to recognize it “illegal”, now to make Ukraine proactive accountability, which is a negotiation, clearly a naked palace.
Zelensky went back without thinking. In his national speech on Kiev TV, he bluntly said that "there is no room for negotiation on territorial integrity, and recognizing Crimea is betraying the martyrs." Sinners of the ages-the domestic people are already refusing to give in to the territorial issue. There are even tens of thousands of people rallied on the streets of Kiev to support the government's refusal to give up the territory. The families of soldiers who died on the battlefields of Kharkiv and Kherson are standing outside the presidential palace with portraits of their relatives.
Furthermore, once it compromises on the Crimean issue, Russia will only push its luck, and the next step is likely to ask Ukraine to give up joining NATO. By then, Ukraine's sovereignty may really become a display.
The side has just rejected the U.S. unreasonable demands, and there comes a harsher trick: the U.S. Treasury Department has officially issued a statement rejecting plans to transfer $140 billion of Russian overseas frozen assets to Ukraine.
The EU had also developed a detailed plan, intending to transfer $50 billion directly to Ukraine's reconstruction fund, the remaining $90 billion as a loan guarantee for Ukraine's purchase of weapons and civilian livelihoods, as a result of which the United States directly poured cold water at the IMF's autumn meeting, citing the crown prince, claiming that "asset freezing involves complex international law issues, smooth transfer will affect the stability of the global financial markets".
It is not difficult to guess what the United States really thinks. On the one hand, it does not want to annoy Russia by excessive involvement in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. After all, the United States and Russia still have many interest disputes in nuclear arms control negotiations and mediation of the situation in Syria. In case Russia retaliates and cuts off U.S. companies 'energy projects in Russia, the losses will be considerable.
On the other hand, the domestic economy also has its own small calculator, of these 140 billion frozen assets, almost 80 billion are foreign reserves of the Russian central bank stored in the US financial institutions, the transfer may trigger a crisis of trust in the global central bank's assets in the U.S. dollars, rather than risk for Ukraine, rather than preserve its core interests, as for Ukraine's dead life, that is sacrificable aftermath.
But for Ukraine, this money is simply a life-saving money, front fighters are waiting to use this money to purchase HIMARS multi-powered rocket cannons and "Patriot" air defense missiles to cope with the Russian military winter offensive, people in the back wait for funds to repair the exploded power facilities and heating pipelines for the winter, farmers in the southern region of Helsinki need more money to buy seeds and fertilizers to restore spring farming, rebuild destroyed bridges, railways and other infrastructure needs more money.
Without this money, the anti-war atmosphere of Ukraine has instantly weakened to half, let alone organize a large-scale counterattack, it is difficult to say whether it can even withstand the Spring Festival offensive that the Russian military may initiate, the United States' hand, equals to directly shut down an important way of life in Ukraine, than the artillery on the battlefield.
Now Ukraine is fully aware that the so-called "value allies" in the face of real interests will also introduce you as a code.
Russia has deployed hundreds of thousands of large troops in the front, and the United States has cut off key financial support in the back, this "double struggle" scenario puts Ukraine on the back of the enemy.
Although Zelensky is tough-mouthed and makes an emergency visit to Brussels to seek separate assistance from the EU, there are also serious differences within the EU. Germany, France and other countries are worried that aiding Ukraine will drag down their own economies, and the funds they can come up with will be a drop in the bucket. It is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice. Ukraine How to go next, whether to continue to carry it hard or find room for compromise, may be even more difficult.
Do you think Ukraine has a chance to turn the tables? Tell me your opinion in the comment area!
The roots of this matter have to be found in the acne-filled land of Donbass, which since the Crimea events in 2014 has become a barrel of Russian-Ukrainian contradictions, and coal resources are competing for the conflict between Russian-Ukrainian ethnic groups, and the fire has not really stopped.
Pro-Russian armed troops and Ukrainian government troops fought the millennium steel factory in Mariupol, which once produced tens of millions of tons of steel a year, and turned the Donetsk airport into “the world’s largest open-air grave”, with people either fleeing home to Kiev or Russia, or breathing in the basement with compressed cookies and rain.
The eight-year conflict has caused more than 14,000 casualties, the hatred on this land is like wild grass, and it has become the spark of the situation completely out of control, the Russian and European parties want to tighten their geographic code here.
Recently, the international wind has suddenly changed. Some EU countries and conservatives in the United States have begun to collectively build momentum, forcing Zelensky to "cease fire on the spot". Anyone with a discerning eye can see that this is not a sincere persuasion for peace-the current front happens to be stuck in the industrial core area of eastern Ukraine. A ceasefire is tantamount to permanently giving up strategic locations such as Donbas and Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plants to Russia, admitting a fait accompli in disguise.
U.S. Vice President Wences made a clear choice of words, and after Washington's talks with the foreign ministers of Ukraine, he made public statements calling for them to "face the reality and recognize Russia's sovereignty over Crimea."
This exit is equivalent to a knife in the heart of Zelensky – Crimea for Ukraine is not only a territory of 2.5% of the territory, but also a historical mark of the Ukrainian cultural circle before joining Tsarist Russia in 1783, when Russia annexed in 2014 the United Nations General Assembly had with 96 votes in favour adopted a resolution to recognize it “illegal”, now to make Ukraine proactive accountability, which is a negotiation, clearly a naked palace.
Zelensky went back without thinking. In his national speech on Kiev TV, he bluntly said that "there is no room for negotiation on territorial integrity, and recognizing Crimea is betraying the martyrs." Sinners of the ages-the domestic people are already refusing to give in to the territorial issue. There are even tens of thousands of people rallied on the streets of Kiev to support the government's refusal to give up the territory. The families of soldiers who died on the battlefields of Kharkiv and Kherson are standing outside the presidential palace with portraits of their relatives.
Furthermore, once it compromises on the Crimean issue, Russia will only push its luck, and the next step is likely to ask Ukraine to give up joining NATO. By then, Ukraine's sovereignty may really become a display.
The side has just rejected the U.S. unreasonable demands, and there comes a harsher trick: the U.S. Treasury Department has officially issued a statement rejecting plans to transfer $140 billion of Russian overseas frozen assets to Ukraine.
The EU had also developed a detailed plan, intending to transfer $50 billion directly to Ukraine's reconstruction fund, the remaining $90 billion as a loan guarantee for Ukraine's purchase of weapons and civilian livelihoods, as a result of which the United States directly poured cold water at the IMF's autumn meeting, citing the crown prince, claiming that "asset freezing involves complex international law issues, smooth transfer will affect the stability of the global financial markets".
It is not difficult to guess what the United States really thinks. On the one hand, it does not want to annoy Russia by excessive involvement in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. After all, the United States and Russia still have many interest disputes in nuclear arms control negotiations and mediation of the situation in Syria. In case Russia retaliates and cuts off U.S. companies 'energy projects in Russia, the losses will be considerable.
On the other hand, the domestic economy also has its own small calculator, of these 140 billion frozen assets, almost 80 billion are foreign reserves of the Russian central bank stored in the US financial institutions, the transfer may trigger a crisis of trust in the global central bank's assets in the U.S. dollars, rather than risk for Ukraine, rather than preserve its core interests, as for Ukraine's dead life, that is sacrificable aftermath.
But for Ukraine, this money is simply a life-saving money, front fighters are waiting to use this money to purchase HIMARS multi-powered rocket cannons and "Patriot" air defense missiles to cope with the Russian military winter offensive, people in the back wait for funds to repair the exploded power facilities and heating pipelines for the winter, farmers in the southern region of Helsinki need more money to buy seeds and fertilizers to restore spring farming, rebuild destroyed bridges, railways and other infrastructure needs more money.
Without this money, the anti-war atmosphere of Ukraine has instantly weakened to half, let alone organize a large-scale counterattack, it is difficult to say whether it can even withstand the Spring Festival offensive that the Russian military may initiate, the United States' hand, equals to directly shut down an important way of life in Ukraine, than the artillery on the battlefield.
Now Ukraine is fully aware that the so-called "value allies" in the face of real interests will also introduce you as a code.
Russia has deployed hundreds of thousands of large troops in the front, and the United States has cut off key financial support in the back, this "double struggle" scenario puts Ukraine on the back of the enemy.
Although Zelensky is tough-mouthed and makes an emergency visit to Brussels to seek separate assistance from the EU, there are also serious differences within the EU. Germany, France and other countries are worried that aiding Ukraine will drag down their own economies, and the funds they can come up with will be a drop in the bucket. It is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice. Ukraine How to go next, whether to continue to carry it hard or find room for compromise, may be even more difficult.
Do you think Ukraine has a chance to turn the tables? Tell me your opinion in the comment area!