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On December 20, Putin absurdly alleged that Poland caused WWII. But it has been missed that he also condemned the Versailles Peace & particularly the German war reparations as excessive. Was he agitating against Russia’s destruction of Donbas?
I have assessed the total asset value of what Putin stole from Ukraine in Crimea & Donbas at $100bn. The very minimum of Russia’s war reparations for Donbas alone should be $20bn & that is lowballing Putin.
Ukrainian companies are likely to win about $10 bn in the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague & Russia has little choice but to pay up.
The basis of these arbitration cases is the Russian-Ukrainian Bilateral Investment Treaty of 1998. Putin forgot that Russia was part of international law. We should all remind him.
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