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Originally Posted by GirlySports
No you're right. I was looking into it incorrectly. You're right
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The Chelsea-thing does seem a bit weird to me too, if I'm honest.
Generally speaking though, Russia declared war against the safety of all Europe, and we're responding like it, like nations at war with Russia.
At wartime, seizure of private property by the government is pretty standard stuff, but really most of the laws necessary to do it tend to be in place even in peacetime. National security trumps everything whenever government say it does. These laws are normally just not used, because seizing private property on the basis of someone's nationality is clearly aggression towards that nation.
Now that Russia declared itself our enemy, we get to treat Russia as the enemy back.
It's not pretty, but going after Putins billionaire buddies lifestyle is a decent strategy to undermine Putins powerbase.