China News Service, September 20 (Reporter Meng Xiangjun) The fighting between Russia and Ukraine continues. Recently, in addition to launching a multi-line counterattack, Ukraine also tried to persuade the United Nations to ask Russia to compensate for the losses in the conflict.

　　The source of some of the reparations identified by the Ukrainian side is the assets of Russia frozen by the West, which are currently as high as about 300 billion US dollars.

Will Russia's treasury purse be "drawn"?

In addition, there is also a "business experience" behind the US aid to Ukraine?

[Compensation against Russia, Ukrainian officials lobby the United Nations]

　　The British "Guardian" disclosed that Ukraine has recently been operating one thing, which is to persuade Western allies and lobby the United Nations to demand that Russia must pay at least billions of dollars in reparations in the peace mediation between Kyiv and Moscow.

　　Ukrainian Deputy Minister of Justice Mudra and others passed detailed legal and policy discussions on compensation, lobbied the Council of Ministers of the European Commission, negotiated in Berlin, Paris, Brussels, and negotiated with Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Rosenberg.

Data map: The scene of the United Nations General Assembly.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Madelin

　　According to reports, the first step of the compensation mechanism in this concept is to establish an international register of losses to establish a foundation for the creation of an international compensation mechanism.

Ukraine also lobbied the United Nations to try to get the UN General Assembly to pass a resolution on the compensation mechanism.

　　How much will it cost to rebuild Ukraine?

Several estimates vary widely.

　　At the Ukrainian Economic Reconstruction Conference in Lugano, Switzerland, in early July, Kyiv proposed a reconstruction plan costing $750 billion.

　　At the end of August, Ukrainian President Zelensky said that the reconstruction of the country's infrastructure would cost between $600 billion and $800 billion.

　　On September 9, the Ukrainian government, the European Parliament and the World Bank jointly estimated that the reconstruction of Ukraine would cost 349 billion US dollars.

　　Where did the huge compensation come from?

The Ukrainian side believes that "part of the use of frozen Russian state-owned assets and oligarchic assets to compensate".

Data map: ruble.

　　The United States and its allies have frozen $30 billion in assets of Russian elites and oligarchs, as well as $300 billion in assets held abroad by the Russian central bank.

　　However, it is unclear how much of the money will be used to compensate Ukraine.

[The United States and its allies have their own thoughts]

　　A large piece of Russia's "fat" was seized, and the United States and its allies made small calculations.

Does the United States intend to take the "life-saving money" of the Afghan people in a grand manner, as it did with Afghanistan?

　　The U.S. could allegedly invoke the Trade with the Enemy Act or the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to "take" the money.

Kramer, director of the Atlantic Council of the United States, and others supported and instigated the confiscation of Russian assets seized.

The British government seized a Russian businessman's super yacht, worth 38 million pounds (about 320 million yuan).

Image source: Visual China

　　U.K. and EU sanctions legislation allows countries to freeze assets of Russian central banks and oligarchs, but does not provide for a unilateral transfer of assets to Ukraine's reconstruction fund.

　　The finance ministers of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Slovakia made a joint statement in support of compensation for Ukraine in this way.

　　It seems that at least no one thinks that the money must never be touched.

But from another perspective, is the "anti-Russian front" formed by the United States still of one mind?

　　German Chancellor Scholz recently pointed out that although the two sides disagree, they must have further dialogue with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Data map: German Chancellor Scholz.

　　Hungarian Prime Minister Orban said bluntly that under the intervention of the West, the conflict between Russia and Ukraine has become a global event and may last until 2030, and Ukraine may "lose one third or half of its territory".

　　French President Emmanuel Macron's political opponent, Marine Le Pen, chairman of the far-right party National League, reminded that the French government, together with the "hysterical EU", has committed "inappropriate and hasty sanctions" against Russia and committed a "geopolitical mistake".

　　Because of the pain of energy shortages and soaring inflation, strikes broke out in many European countries, and the call for lifting sanctions on Russia has become louder.

Under the pressure of public opinion, Europe may find it difficult to follow the lead of the United States and give all the seized Russian assets to Ukraine.

　　Having said that, will the huge sums be easily given to the Ukrainians?

If the state-owned assets of a sovereign country can be confiscated and misappropriated so easily, it will only sound the alarm for all countries, and that is to find a way out and break away from the restraint of Western financial hegemony as soon as possible.

　　This has formed a "backlash" effect for the United States, which is based on dollar hegemony, and its credibility and authority have been gradually weakened.

But does America care?

[Behind the Western "spraying money", the purpose is impure]

　　On September 8, local time, U.S. Secretary of State Blinken made a surprise visit to Ukraine and announced that it would provide Ukrainian military aid of $675 million. The Biden administration also applied to the U.S. Congress to provide U.S. $2.2 billion in military aid to Ukraine and its surrounding 18 countries, including about $675 million in military aid. $1 billion to Ukraine.

　　At present, the United States provides the most weapons to Ukraine, followed by the United Kingdom.

Since Biden took office as US president, the US has provided Ukraine with about $15.8 billion in military aid.

　　What is the intention of the United States to try to help Ukraine?

Data map: Ukrainian soldiers used M777 howitzers provided by the United States to fire on Russian positions.

　　Recently, Spain's "Justice" stated the deeper purpose of the United States.

The newspaper columnist Lyle pointed out that, in fact, the United States and NATO intend to build dozens of military bases in Ukraine on extremely unreasonable conditions.

By bowing to the West, Kyiv is "digging a hole for itself and risking losing its future" or offering the country's territory to US and NATO forces.

　　Lyle believes that the United States and NATO countries have imposed their own weapons on Ukraine, forcing it to maintain and upgrade in the future, thereby taking money from its budget and repurposing it to its own military-industrial complex.

In doing so, Kyiv will become a vehicle for the U.S. energy and military lobby groups to pursue their interests.

　　Going around, it is hard to say whose pocket the $300 billion will fall, but it is certain that the Ukrainian people will not receive much "compensation".

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