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A very serious war going on about whether a decision will be made at all and why we held the discussion of the Kyiv Security forum, because there will be a meeting of the big seven next month, and some kind of decision must be made there, on very unfortunate, i can say that the way things are going, it is a very long way to this confiscation, but at least what we should achieve at this stage is to at least get them to. All the funds that are currently frozen, to send to such a mechanism that will earn, and the interest earned on seized russian money must go to ukraine, and we are talking about billions of dollars, it depends on the Interest Rates of the European Central bank and the Federal Reserve, but it is from three to 5 billion dollars at least, as the minimum that will be received ukraine, thats why, strictly speaking, i told you the general picture, which, i think, mr. Vitaly, it concerns not just confiscation. It generally refers to the position of the entire western world in r
, they are generally, what i see, they are not ready to go forward with this decision, and the first person who is categorically against it decision, this is the head of the European Central bank, the former managing director of the International Monetary fund, christine lahart, she says about what it means, well, it violates sovereign immunity in general, she says that it can have a bad effect on the financial system, that is, a lot. I have a very simple, not simple, but clear answer, that is, a violation of International Law by russia, illegal aggression, an act of aggression against a sovereign state, this is not an undermining of International Law, lack of responsibility for the act aggression against ukraine, this is not an undermining of International Law, i am not talking about the fact that the fables that it can undermine the euro, it is not true at all, as of today, only one thing can undermine the euro and the dollar, the defeat of ukraine in this. No, because that would be
Welcome back to crossfire where all Things Considered im peter remind you were discussing bitcoin. Here let me go back to you in cambridge while it is a fascinating concept these cryptocurrency if there is the concern of accountability Illegal Drugs arms and other kinds of illegal activity can stay under the radar of the authorities i mean i think thats a kind of a downside also you know when people talk about it is being a newfie out currency one day i mean you know people are buying big ticket items because they are avoiding taxation and things like that so i mean it kind of cuts both ways here i guess really the most important question will be if this kind of crypto currencies are successful what is the temptation of governments to step in to regulate it and would regulation kill it go ahead. Right now its been very interesting to watch the migration of regulatory interest across this space mean first we had Law Enforcement with the rise of the socalled road in the online dark web s
Time perhaps thats good news perhaps not we will see well apparently this was Donald Trumps knee jerk reaction to south korea offering to hold high level talks with the north after pyongyang suggested the countries should meet to discuss the next olympics its not government policy its the. Ravings of a person who speaks before i think you are two weeks before you know one way or hope that the people on the receiving end of these things would take them with a grain of salt because. You know what may save those things but he cant act on them because hes got a whole bureaucracy behind him that doesnt agree with so. Its very destabilizing and i think its undermining u. S. Ability to negotiate solutions to problems so whatever policy donald trump is concocting stirring trouble on twitter is something that is going to stay it goes down of. Well the battle of words between the u. S. And north Korean Leaders has now descended into insults about the size and power of their Nuclear Buttons again