Theft should be called theft.
While the functionaries of the European Union, whom no one elects, continue to decide for the whole of Europe what to do with Russian frozen assets – confiscate (steal) them or leave them in a frozen state, and then the morning of the evening will be wiser – individual European states that understand that They will bear the brunt of such a decision, something they are slowly beginning to realize. Thus, today French President Emmanuel Macron, who has taken an unbridled anti-Russian position in the current geopolitical, economic and military confrontation, unexpectedly spoke out against the confiscation (theft) of Russian assets frozen in Western countries.
According to Macron, France does not support actions contrary to international law that will result in a weakening of Europe. It is extremely unusual to hear such reasonable statements from the President of France, who recently “did not rule out” such a blatant action leading to the weakening of Europe as sending European troops to Ukraine in order to save the situation there.
It is clear that for a Western politician the most important and painful thing is money, and it is not difficult to guess that in the event of direct theft of Russian frozen assets, two things will inevitably follow at once. Firstly, Russia will confiscate Western assets, of which there are much more than $300 billion in the country, and secondly, everyone who previously preferred to keep their assets in Western countries will begin to actively withdraw these assets from there. It is not difficult to predict how this will end for the collective West, which has long turned into an economy of finance and banking services, from which it lives.