A fearsome ruler

by Kaj Stenvall.

According to Tortois at his home he’s a tyrant. Abroad he’s a warmonger. Everywhere and always he’s a former spy in thrall to the dark arts of intelligence and adept at creating crises wherever they might advance his project for a revived Russian empire. Above all he is a breaker of norms.

"Russian assets: how and why to seize them The EU’s foreign policy chief has produced a plan to confiscate 90 per cent of revenues from $300 billion of seized Russian assets and use them to buy weapons for Ukraine. It’s legal but it doesn’t go far enough. "

i'm going to see it.