Comments by "Curious Crow" (@CuriousCrow-mp4cx) on "Should Russian money in Western banks be used to support Ukraine and its eventual reconstruction?" video.

  1. I'm sure all the historical cases of all countries who have fought other nations are worth a mention too. Go for it. Just be sure to do your accounting to include your own country too.
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  2. Did the Russian State compensate anyone? For the loss of their ancestral lands, assets, and cumulative damage?
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  3. And what of your own country?
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  4. Interesting argument, because the messiness of geopolitics makes everything associated with it messy too. Yet, there is another perspective and it is a pragmatic one. Another commenter argued that justice and peace are mutually exclusive in the context of war. You can't have both at the same time. To bring peace, it may be impossible to give justice in any meaningful sense. To bring justice to Ukraine, no amount of money will make up for what has been lost, even if Russia returns to its 1991 boundaries. And Justice doesn't matter to Russia, because "might is right", right? Since that is the case, the money is a sunk cost in a venture that needs no reward. A gamble, which was lost. But we should be aware that certain Russian elites won't stop gambling with money they didn't earn, or with lives they do not value, until it costs them a price which they themselves must pay. In this context, Mother Russia, or any motherland is mostly in danger from its elites, if they exist within bubbles, cut off from realities, that they ignore, or make no effort to understand.
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  5. Yes, if the law has an overarching right to it, which in Russia and every state, is the case.
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  6. ​ @timcooke2656 Your legalistic argument is lacking the legal basis of Property Rights, which is the Law, and which through the legal doctrine of Equity, can override contractual rights, if Justice would be denied. Equity was almost as interesting as Criminal Law, because although it's costs money to access it, it is a remnant of ancient Legal Jurisprudence that openly and unabashedly, moral. Might is not always Right.
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