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From the POV of outside of Russia… this is Russia defaulting on its sovereign debts, no?

From the POV of people in Russia suspending access to international reserves is the West defaulting on its sovereign debt. Those were liabilities owned and owed to the Russians.

The West expects to get away with it, why not Russia?

And of course with all this defaulting on liabilities going on, those other countries in debt to the West are looking on to see what happens.

The answer will be less than most fear. As is usual in these situations the fear is a greater behaviour control than the reality.

> The West expects to get away with it, why not Russia?

One of these two so casually mentioned in the same sentence is literally bombing civilians.

If bombing civilians will not stop you from defending a murderous regime with whataboutisms, what will?

So do Americans, that argument doesn’t hold water.

What if I’m not American, why bring them up? The government of Rwanda also killed civilians. Does that excuse the Russians?

Bombing civilians has no impact on whether a country can get away with defaulting on it's debt.

It seems like it's having an impact.

Yes, but it's for the moment called a technical default.

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