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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
It doesn’t help that we cheerfully accept - no, enthusiastically solicit - investment by crooked oligarchs from Saudia Arabia, China, and other regimes just as odious as Putin’s Russia.
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The difference is that Putin's Russia is actively bombing another country. It's killing hundreds everyday and displace millions. Saudi and China don't. It has nothing to do with Russia being authoritarian. USA was a democracy yet they bombed Iraq for no reason. The reason why oligarchs assets are being seized have nothing to do with them did anything wrong per se. It's being seized to help stop Putin. We don't retroactively claim that those oligarchs are dirty, bad, illegal or anything. We attack them to stop the war.