Bill Browder: Frozen Russian assets could fund Ukraine's defenses and reconstruction | DW News 

Just as the US is doing to tRump ... It's the only pain autocrats and dictators understand.

Britain is not at war with Russia - in fact no EU country is. It's theft and investors who had part of this in ETF packages are not going to forget.

Except that sanctions didn’t work against the largest economy in Europe by PPP 😅

Old American saying also👍🏻

So true.

Americans would never tolerate Russian equipment on the Mexican or Canadian border and they wouldn't mind invading both countries for ¨security reasons¨ stop being a hypocrite

RED NOTICE by Bill Browder ...a real page turner and explains a lot about how this mess started in the first place.

This Man is me Suspect! After the Sowjetunion there was Wild East and nothing in there Time was Democratic and Transparent!

Good.

@@Willburys Bill Browder fought corruption and tried to promote transparency and good governance in privatised businesses in Russia. That's how he made enemies of Putin and his clique of kleptocrats.

Bill Browder is on Interpol list wanted for theft!

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Why? Because Russia supply Europe with gas.

The same reason anything takes so long, politicians bureaucrats, call them what you want. The American people are overwhelming on board with this plan I think most Europeans are too. Well excluding Russia, Belarus, and maybe Hungry. The thing to me is, if you don't want your money taken don't put it in foreign banks that have a treaty obligation to help the country you're invading it's just common sense. I mean at least withdraw it all first if you want to keep it.

@@georgewashington7829 AGAIN... I am NOT talking about American people but those at the top. REPEAT: I am NOT talking about American people.

Because they know what you don't know and see what u can not see

Because truth in the dollar and euro would evaporate the moment they do it

I still keep asking myself, since the dawn of war, Ukraine has receive so far an astronomical amount (90%) of that amount comes from US & Canada. While the rest (10%) comes from other nation/s from Europe continent including Oceania. Lets say, that re - building the post war Ukraine, it will take definitely some (15 - 20 +) years time, always approximately. International Monetary Found comes, and says (2) Ukraine, you know something. Europe, US, Canada, Oceania offer you, everything they had, during the war. All these financial assistance never comes (4) free!!! Which is the response of Ukraine through International Monetary Found (2) West nation/s (4) their assistance?? How long is go (2) take (4) Ukraine (2) return all the financial assistance received during war??? What kind interest rate, Ukraine is go (2) ask from West countries (4) their assistance through International Monetary Found?? I don't see any1 wrote such things...

Ikr?? I liked that line about the money for UA reconstruction coming out of Putin's pocket before ours.

What part of Russia is a "dictatorship" do too many people not understand? 'Dictatorships...' don't even allow their own people to speak out, or know the truth! So why on earth would think for a moment they would tell "you" the truth? If a Russian person even calls this a 'war...' they can face upwards of "10 years" or more in jail, or worse be murdered by the regime. Putin has said this 'war...' has to be called a "special military operation." Russian soldiers are brutalised, lied to and tortured by their own government. The families how lose loved ones, few get the death payments promised them, and soldiers themselves are left often with no pay or weapons with substandard equipment, which left many to freeze to death in winter. There are no free fair elections in Russia under Putin - all free media and political opposition has been shut down, journalists, politicians and ordinary people - imprisoned or murdered! Many have been taken in by Russian disinformation: by the way it was Russia under Stalin and the KGB in 1923 which arrived at the concept and coined the word 'disinformation!' They even gave it a Western sounding name, so we would more easily adopt it... so that worked? Putin has murdered "100 000s" of people in Chechnya, Georgia, Syria, Moldova, Belarus and Ukraine and elsewhere in the world. Syria, was a people's uprising as a result of the Arab Spring, which began in Tunisia in 2010, as a result Assad slaughtered peaceful protesters with gunships. The people fought bravely for years, but when Damascus was about to fall, Assad called in Putin. Assad and Putin then murdered "100 000s" of people, dropping bombs on children in their schools, burning them alive! In Russia itself, if people even call the Ukraine Russia War, a "war..." they can face up to "10 years" in jail, or if someone is a high profile politician or public figure, then can be imprisoned or even murdered. A recent UN stated the in a terror campaign orchestrated by Putin... "children" as young as '4' years old are being tortured and raped. We must act to stop this, and support the people of Ukraine to ensure this ends... in defeating the Putin Regime this could be a turning corner for humanity, in our search to end war, and all injustice? @@jdrancho1864

Done some research on Browder. He made his fortune on Russian shady late 90' and early 00' privatization, after 2006 he was accused for some of his wrongdoings there and he flee from Russia not to be arrested. So he took Russian money too, let him give Ukraine some of his (I meant Russian) money if he is so concerned. From his regime I can understand why he can justified stilling private property.

Thx @sebastianwrites 🙏🏼🙏🏼

Will it deter the US, they invaded a lot of countries without UN approval!?

It's not deterring Russia that's for sure 😂😂

Like deterring US?

They will just not keep reserves in western currencies, obviously.

Until brics currency.

No, not against US, they bring democracy, haha!

Dont forget Afghanistan and Vietnam

​@@Satella382 u mean America is actually a Middle Eastern puppet? 🤔

@@Satella382 You can invite smbdy in yours house ,NOT in to neighbours house!

And Libya

This guy is simply promoting Trumps candidacy promising to end the war right away with no repercussions

Trump,s Cult will melt if you take Putin,s money.

Browder is a fool.America can't even defend it's own southern borders. How can it defend Taiwan or Ukraine?

Very true he and putin are enemies.

Nope

Totally agree .. the world needs more people like Bill Browder 👍👍👍👍

with his mindset how many countries will pull their money out of Western banks in fear their money is not safe from greedy Western powers?

definitely deserve to be a uk pm

Could should and must be is the answer your looking for 😊

Browder happily lined his pockets with millions of dollars in Russia until Putin slapped him. After this, Browder suddenly became an ardent human rights activist and fighter against Putin. 👎

Sure he he has it 💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@@marcspace5144 you can always expect trolls to be all over anything involving Bill Browder as he's public enemy number one to Putin and his mafia clique.

Since what times do cheaters consider a good man )

Yes, since everything he said allign to what your brain wants to hear. If he said anything opposing your opinion then he's Putin's puppet, he's an Igor, an Ivan, a bot.

Yes take putins money give it to Ukrain.

@@david4096 hahhaah legend

Awesome... so ure saying will usa pay for the reconstruction of iraq, afganistan, syria... And Israel will pay for the reconstruction of gaza? Ure such an amazing human being!!!

@@Madferreiro Criminals can't justify their crimes by pointing fingers at others, that's not how it works.

​@@andrewadams6905No that is called point8ng out hypocrisy United States better be footing the bill for all the countries they invaded like criminals let's start with Mexico then work out way through 😊

@@andrewadams6905 calm down man, it was just an inocent question. Another inocent question: whats ur opnion on the gaza genocide?

@@shadowslayer9988 Since Russia started a very brutal war for territory in Europe, it could be compared to the start of WW2. Germany paid, and Russia will pay for the same reason.

Poor Charles..Your mind and an extra pound on top!!!😂

First compensate all the illegal wars the usa was involved , by american funds . Would be a very good idea.

@@dirkdebrabandere9701 huh?? “All the illegal wars”?? Care to name them, or you just another Russian bot?

The terrorism war in Afghanistan was internationally supported including Putin. There was UN resolution on it. Who supported Putin’s war?

​@@alhambrabiker1476who supported US war on Iraq?

@@teute256_6 I was talking about Afghanistan and his comment was about Afghanistan. Where is Iraq coming from? Now since you mentioned Iraq. Educate yourself on United Nations Security Council Resolution 1441. Did Putin have any UN resolution on the war in Ukraine?

Can you do anything else than beg?

North africans must pay 5 trillion to Spain + Portugal for the Caliphate of Córdoba; Turks must pay 5 trillion to eastern European countries for the dictatorship and genocide committed by the Ottomans; Istanbul has to be given back to Greece and it will be called Constantinople again; Mongolia must pay 20 trillion to Europe for the invasions and barbarian acts of war crime it comitted 800 years ago by Dhinghis Khan.

That's another way of defining therf.......It will affect them more when other countries will stop using their currencies that is why they aint doing anything

@@jonatikoisuva2695 LOL. What will they use instead? The Ruble, The Rand, The Real?

​@@stream2watch Trading in national currencies or bartering systems for recoorces trading in valuable asset or valuable metals, is far better then weaponised dollar used as blackmail and to do power projecrion from hypocitcal lying narcissistic supremist west that steals peoples money and violates international law anytime they want yet impose it on to others.

​@@stream2watchrussia and china has already dedolarized when it comes to trading with each other lol. And it was reached equal to around 200 billion dollars in trade which is growing 15% ot 20% and 30% anualy. What is the west gona do about it? Lmfao. Cry

@@HairLessBush Nobody cares. You are crying already btw.

Are you a thief because right now you're sounding like one, first you called it a Russian asset and then it appears you guy's have intentions want to steal it, well the world is watching an waiting for you do or say will be used against you, Given that the united states have gone around the world breaking thing's which they never built an no one ever said that they should rebuild those countries, So Afghanistan, Vietnam, Laos, Syria, Serbia will all come knocking on the united states 🇺🇸 door for reparations rising from the destruction of lives an properties, Remember all these countries did not come to the united states 🇺🇸 to attack them for any reasons whatsoever rather the united states 🇺🇸 went to theirs against international law.

Furthermore, if the money is spent towards a select few companies in the west of course.

What part of Russia is a "dictatorship" do too many people not understand? 'Dictatorships...' don't even allow their own people to speak out, or know the truth! So why on earth would think for a moment they would tell "you" the truth? If a Russian person even calls this a 'war...' they can face upwards of "10 years" or more in jail, or worse be murdered by the regime. Putin has said this 'war...' has to be called a "special military operation." Russian soldiers are brutalised, lied to and tortured by their own government. The families how lose loved ones, few get the death payments promised them, and soldiers themselves are left often with no pay or weapons with substandard equipment, which left many to freeze to death in winter. There are no free fair elections in Russia under Putin - all free media and political opposition has been shut down, journalists, politicians and ordinary people - imprisoned or murdered! Many have been taken in by Russian disinformation: by the way it was Russia under Stalin and the KGB in 1923 which arrived at the concept and coined the word 'disinformation!' They even gave it a Western sounding name, so we would more easily adopt it... so that worked? Putin has murdered "100 000s" of people in Chechnya, Georgia, Syria, Moldova, Belarus and Ukraine and elsewhere in the world. Syria, was a people's uprising as a result of the Arab Spring, which began in Tunisia in 2010, as a result Assad slaughtered peaceful protesters with gunships. The people fought bravely for years, but when Damascus was about to fall, Assad called in Putin. Assad and Putin then murdered "100 000s" of people, dropping bombs on children in their schools, burning them alive! In Russia itself, if people even call the Ukraine Russia War, a "war..." they can face up to "10 years" in jail, or if someone is a high profile politician or public figure, then can be imprisoned or even murdered. A recent UN stated the in a terror campaign orchestrated by Putin... "children" as young as '4' years old are being tortured and raped. We must act to stop this, and support the people of Ukraine to ensure this ends... in defeating the Putin Regime this could be a turning corner for humanity, in our search to end war, and all injustice?

@@Basieeee There are many nice start ups in the Ukranian Defense Industry that can be invested in. In Sovjet times Ukraine was the hot bed of the Sovjet Degffense Industry. The ukranians are hard working clevver people who drink less alcohol than the always drunk Russians.

That money is going to the American companies 😂😂 its theft..just like Libya gold reserves where is that ?still in UK bank or in some multinational account..look how the west is crashing their financial trust with this move

The war crimes committed by Russia 🇷🇺 justifies seizing their foreign assets.

​@@arildschonberg3607first Germany should pay Poland 1 trillion dollars !

I'm assuming you do lmao

​@@MORE_BEANS_PLZ anyone whit a bit of common sense does. But that's rare whit radicals like him and you

@@touch_iron2469 you're calling me radical but on other comments you're doing just that lmao sit somewhere and listen to people who actually know what they're talking about 😂

Is it your job to defend dictators?

@Solid_Snake88 check out the meaning of "confirmation bias".

Russia destroyed it why should nato do that... 😂

Never. The masters don't help their slaves to rebuild the countries. Ukraine included.

Lybia is still in total kaos - And in Ukraine the US did a lend lease program. Look uo Lend lease

Russia stole Crimea. It has to pay for it's crimes.

Вы деньги которые украли из моего русского кармана называете конфискованы ? Это просто воровство. Вы воры . На востоке ворам утирали руки чтобы они дальше не воровали. Это ваша будущая судьба

It will betray the financial trust. Next assets of other countries will be stolen by the west base on different circumstances when they don't ally to some values.

But how will other countries view the security of their investments in Western finance and assets? It will destroy trust

that is call stealing... and the world is gonna watch it

Theft is common sense? I don't think so.

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Ivan, basic rule: you break it you pay for it. Russia broke peace by starting this war in 2014, so Russia is liable for all the damage.

@@andrewadams6905 for sure Russia will pay to Ukraine if Russia consider that appropriate. but it's not up to the west to decide how to manage Russian assets. Who does the west think they are? Some kind of moral compass or what lmao

@@andrewadams6905When US/NATO will start paying for Balkan, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria???

@@gohin14 Nobody asks a criminal what he considers "appropriate". Russia started this criminal war and is liable for all damages.

Because it's seed money for the well-being and stability of the post-Putinism Russian Federation.

Cause Trump dont want that to happen to his buddy Putin.

No single international law requires the theft of money of other sovereign nations. So technically, this is illegal.

US paid $30B for reconstruction.

@@andrewadams6905How mich they paid for Balkan, Libya, Afghanistan, Syria???

@andrewadams6905 4, Are you smoking?

@@andrewadams6905yes stolen form Iraq funds, us is still occupying parts of Iraq and Syria and stealing its oil revenue. US companies got very rich of stealing Iraq money, us stolesomething like £20Bn from Iraq.

"interviews by RFE/RL's North.Realities with former residents who have returned, either to work or to take up the new housing, or to deliver humanitarian aid, paint a picture of hurried construction, dubious building quality, and great uncertainty about the city's future" - RFE/RL Small city and little progress. Mostly the Russians have just been tearing down.

The Russians destroyed this city. Ukrainians are being forcibly evicted from their homes. Russians are being brought to Mariupol. Now is the time to hold “fair” elections for Putin in the occupied territories.

Potemkin facade

😂 true , but that is a no no footage otherwise Russia good

Browder happily lined his pockets with millions of dollars in Russia until Putin slapped him. After this, Browder suddenly became an ardent human rights activist and fighter against Putin. 👎

Do you refer to the war crimes committed by Russia 🇷🇺?

@@arildschonberg3607 u cant compare Russia war crimes against US war crimes...US have a huge lead in war crimes...but nobody care

@@arildschonberg3607 and by british and french and america nad the whole west ??

What misery? We pay you trillions for oil

would you like to take it for free? your comment is out of contexts and irrelevant the least you can do is be sympathetic to all the horrific war created by the US and the puppet west@@Solid_Snake88

This man is speaking of collapsing of EU banking system

talk is cheap ..dare you to do it without thinking hard on the conseqences ... you are not dealing with taliban with pitch fork ..you are dealing with a world super power

Freezing Order was a great read. Now I search for Bill Browder every month or two and follow what he's talking about. As long as we create a legal framework for confiscating Russian funds, I can't see a down side.

Lots of sense. Follow the interviews with him.

It really makes sense and there is nothing to talk much about. When Putin sees he and his supporters will have to pay for the damage they cause, they will be less enthusiastic to inflict even more damage.

No the rules are the same, if you choose to flout those rules you can't turn around and claim protection by citing the very rules you have broken.

of course, comrade. We appreciate your concern for the banking system.

Are your money really safe in the bank?

@@pwp8737 “We are offering the best deal in the global security market: give us money, give us weapons, and we will get the job done,” Mr. Kuleba said. Ukrainians do not fight for their freedom. They fight and die for the interests of the United States and Europe

If we play by the same rules as them that would mean we would be dictators too.

Its a bad indicator to investors when youre spending their money illegally. Have you ever thought of that?

yeah,,talk is cheap..but when rus want do the same with western froze assets while ago they all whining..dont talk about assets,,most of them still buying rus gas from reseller

If that happens people will dump the DOLLAR so fast...specially CHINA n INDIA......No one wants that RISK on there part where ur money gets used against u if not playing by ur rules........US has not done that for a reason

Russia has not stolen money from EU banks. He is going to cause the downfall of Western power throughout the world as countries will start investing more in the BRICS central bank. Its a recipe for a global shift in economic security as the reason the Central bank is strong is due to their ability to protect outers money. Now they are resulting to theft to put back in their pockets. They will not give 300 billion solely to Ukraine. It will go to other countries coffers. He is trying to solve EU recession issues not help Ukraine.

They didnt. Germany became US frinedly countrie, RU is not. Its depends with whom you are friend, its not about justice.

Yes Germany did pay a lot of money, lost a lot of territories, was occupied for years and suffered destruction to a degree you can nowadays witness Ruzzia doing in Ukraine. Actually the punishment for WW1 was so severe it directly lead to WW2.

Regarding (west)Germany, one of biggest inititiators was the "Marshal Plan", a fund for reconstruction, you might watch a documentary on this one, another was the country rebuilding strategy which ended in the "Wirtschaftswunder" in the 60s or so. Look at Japan post WW2 and South Koreas investment strategy after the Korean War. And take note which countries in history were the most loud ones to shout for reparations... [Edit] Note that there is this tiny thing called national debt, in case you are wondering where the money was pulled from.

Because Germans are well educated, work hard and follow the law. Unlike the dictator they once had. Corruption is low and democracy well founded in the German leadership. (Btw, I’m Norwegian)

Yes, they mostly did. Germany still paid some WW1(!) reparations just a few years back, in 21st century. Also, as the biggest economy in the EU Germany is also funding poorer member states, like Poland, the Baltic states etc. Some eastern block countries (Poland) never got their WW2 reparations, despite the fact that Germany did pay them, because they were stolen by Russia (USSR).

WHat's the point of reconstruction if war didn't stop ? So money will be used to continue the war . And if war will stop after Ukraine defeat Ukraine will pay out this debt .

@@leonb5839I agree that reconstruction during the war is silly. No point in building a nice new building to see it get blown up right away. As Bill Browder said, they should initially use the frozen assets to ensure victory, or at least prevent defeat. Anything left over can be used during reconstruction. Even if it doesn't fully compensate for the damages, it should at least provide a future deterrent to aggression.

you should read the memorandum . it doesnt protect ukraine from anything except nuclear thread . US was the main pusher for the memorandum , as they didnt want another new country to have nukes , not like Russia was asking for it .

@@bobvance4712 so what if Ukraine will be defeated? Russia will have a casus belly and will nuke EU?

@@Loveisreal77 You can protect yourself with Memorandum because Russia has arsenal to destroy West and Ukraine. Meanwhile just say it outloud : "West will still Russian Money to wage the war aganst Russia" . Does it sound like a declaration of war ? You are starting new war and this is escalation of hostilities.

Comical anachronism. Putin doesn't Rise or Maintain power without Browder, his cohorts and his masters and their uncountable monies poured into Putin's state subsidized entities, all for their own avarice.

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😂😂😂😂😂

After reading Freezing Order, I get the sense he knows what he's talking about.

So champion FORCE ASSIMILATION of Minorities then...

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who thinks ukraine will be on map

who thinks ukraine will be on map

@@ndetokiio3563anyone with iq higher than 3

@@ndetokiio3563 hah, Russia more like. How many times has it fallen apart. A 3 day war is 3yrs and they've been trying to take Avdivka for 3months. How many A50s left?

No one is talking about rebuilding ucraine, this is about confiscating Russian foreign financial reserves to fund military equipment to end the war.

Syria

The situation is different, USA have no frozen funds, so how they will make them pay?

Bots always spell Libya wrong. Did you flunk school?

​@@stream2watchclown avatar suits you

u i a fool to say that, let NATO go rebuild lybia, Iraq and Syria after destroying and looting them

I already caused the crisis of distrust. Look at the streightening BRICS and more and more countries getting rid of trade in dollars. If they'll steal the money it will be even worse for the west, but the thieves don't care, they just want to steal. If someone believes those money will go to Ukraine's rebuild those people are potatoes.

You must be delirious. Crisis of distrust?! It must go both ways. Who trusts Putin in the first place?

I fully understand, the sticking point of the argument. But this is Russia, they’ve cost Ukraine DECADES AND GENERATIONS in lost civilians, schools, hospitals, and other infrastructures critical or otherwise and if we can’t carve out a distinction for that their is no reason for international law. So it becomes a weighing of sorts the anarcho capitalism over the Russian state or the priority of condemning it’s bloodlust and aggressions so that it does not become a precedent.

Oh no where will blood soaked regimes such as North Korea and China do there banking? With our sanctions we’ve tried to isolate Russia to some extent, but it they have tens and hundreds of billions in bank accounts sadly kept are all our sanctions just some kind of perversion?

In other words. Only the USA and EU countries have guarantees of the inviolability of financial resources. The democracy of other countries may be questioned. And such a country will be robbed immediately. Right now, even Israel could be charged.

Yes

Wait for it... you'll see no money 🤣

All of those were performed following sufficient casus belli, and were not motivated by expansionism. The fact that you believe there's any moral equivalence between the actions of the US and those of Russia, or those of any of Russia's closest allies, really indicates one of two possibilities. Either you're on somebody's payroll, or you suffer from a grave lack of functional neural complexity.

​@@VVayVVardso you don't expand but you destroy, that makes u a Saint? Joker

@@cannibalronny7314 Law enforcement officers sometimes shoot criminals. The reason this is allowed is because they don't do this arbitrarily---because they only target people who broke the law. Excessive use of force is of course a thing, but I highly doubt your ability to make that case regarding any of the countries named above.

also western banking system, no one would trust it

I think the concern about the precedent set by confiscating assets is a valid one. I would posit that this extreme situation warrants such an equally extreme response, and is a smart trade-off, but I can understand a different view. However, a claim that the US and Europe are supporting genocide in Gaza is laughable, excepting that there is nothing funny about the escalating bloodshed unleashed by Hamas' attack.

And yet, you have all your facts wrong? Libya, was a people's uprising which if we hadn't of intervened and stopped Gadhafi turning his army against the people "100 000s" would have been slaughtered! Iraq is now a successful democracy. And our actions stopped the genocide against the Kurds. And Afghanistan again under the Taliban, a dictatorship, which denies women even basic rights, and forces children into marriage, abuse and rape! So check your facts please, instead of jumping on the bandwagon?

"7000" children have been killed in Gaza... what would 'you' call it?@@hhusband7930

But the US and UK voted against cease fires, so are therefore guilty of not stopping Israel. Therefore foreign assets should be seized.

Since the Chinese civil war

De facto? Since 1949.

De facto since 1949. Legally since 1912 as Republic of China.

Taiwan is a province of China.@@Worldaffairslover

@@amunra5330 it’s not. Taiwan is independent. They make their own laws, hold their own elections.