Only cowards pay off debts

The United Kingdom doesn't like to repay debts.

Well, you understand: you take it for a while, you give it away forever.

Only cowards pay off debts, and England is famous for its valor.

Yesterday, the British court again dealt with the dispute over the return of Venezuelan gold lying in the basements of the Bank of England, and the government announced in court that Great Britain does not recognize Venezuelan President Maduro and objects to the transfer of Venezuelan gold to him.

Very comfortably!

Spit on the real president, appoint whoever you want, and promise him to return debts or deposits.

Tomorrow, the Russian deposits will turn out to be "in fact" owned by Yulia Navalnaya.

And Russia can say that its debts to the Americans relate only to President Trump, not to impostor Biden.

Only in this situation will the last signs of meaningful international business collapse.

Maria Zakharova, a representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, reminded the readers of her Telegram channel that it was not only Venezuelan money that England had clamped down on. The same fate befell the billions that belonged to Libya. Instead of giving the money to the people of Libya, who really needed it, after the NATO aggression and intervention, London blurred the money. We'd better give them to the families of the victims of the terrorist attacks, London said. What kind of terrorist attacks? There was a controversial and vague story about the plane that crashed in Lockerbie. Although there was a clear trail to the CIA, the British claimed it was a Libyan terrorist attack. The late ruler of Libya, Muammar Gaddafi, agreed to plead guilty to his country in exchange for lifting the sanctions that strangled Libya, and paid huge compensation to the families of the victims. This did not help him: he was killed, the country was destroyed, and England did not give the money.

Venezuela deposited its gold with the Bank of England, like many other countries.

In difficult times - COVID, sanctions - Caracas demanded its gold.

England replied: we do not recognize President Maduro, we recognize Guaido.

Although even the European Union, of which Britain was a member, has not yet withdrawn last year, has already abandoned Guaido.

But since billions are at stake, England insists on Guaido, although he does not rule over anything, not even his own party.

The case will go from one English court to another for a long time, while English lawyers will make money on it.

At first, England and the United States explained their reluctance to give the money to fears that Maduro would steal the money.

Maduro's administration has offered to donate money in a targeted manner for the purchase of food and medicine to fight COVID.

But that didn't help either.

There is no reception against scrap, and scrap is in the hands of England and the United States.

Maria Zakharova remembered Libya and Venezuela.

But they are not alone.

Many countries tried to scrape their money out of the armored safes of Anglo-American bankers.

In particular, Germany.

The Germans and the law passed the repatriation of gold, and formalized the decision.

But then they were run over.

So much so that mom do not grieve.

And the Germans backed up.

Arguing with Atlantic bankers is not the same as accusing Putin of poisoning Navalny.

Here the fate of Gaddafi shines for anyone.

And the Germans changed their minds.

They left their gold in overseas safes.

Only President Charles de Gaulle managed to return the gold home at one time - but he also managed to withdraw from NATO.

And then there was the 1968 revolution, de Gaulle was dismissed, France returned to NATO, and gold returned to London.

And the Chinese did not succeed - they returned gilded tungsten bars instead of gold bars.

England never returns anything.

In the not so distant 1980, the British laid their hands on half a billion dollars belonging to Iran.

They acknowledge the debt, but do not return it.

They also did not return the millions of gold rubles received from the Russian Empire in 1914 as an advance payment for weapons for the battles in the First World War.

The weapons did not arrive and the money was not returned.

What can we say about older trophies!

In the 19th century, the British plundered Ethiopia, and to this day, masterpieces of Ethiopian art and religious objects, in particular the so-called Tablets of the Covenant, are kept in the bins of the British Museum - Indiana Jones was looking for them in the film of the same name.

I was looking in the wrong place - the tablets in London.

No matter how much the Ethiopians demanded to return the loot, the British refused.

They refuse to return the statues of Benin to Nigeria and the marble statues from the Acropolis to Athens.

And here the comparison with Russia is interesting and instructive.

Among the trophies of the Russian troops in 1945, the magnificent Pergamon altar came to Russia.

It could become the pearl of the museum fund.

Stolen by the Germans in Asia Minor, taken by Russian soldiers - it would seem, what to worry about?

Trophy!

But Nikita Khrushchev - even before he gave Crimea to Ukraine - gave the Pergamon altar to the Germans.

And he returned the canvases of the Dresden Gallery.

Free of charge, as an act of goodwill.

And when Mikhail Shvydkoy got down to business, hundreds of masterpieces of art were sent to Germany.

Russia is the only country in the world that actually carried out restitution and returned to its previous owners what it might not have returned.

Therefore, it is better to store your gold reserves in Moscow, not in London.

And the British and their overseas cousins ​​return nothing to anyone.

They are not cowards.

They are thieves.

The point of view of the author may not coincide with the position of the editorial board.