Steve Cohen

If Russia refuses to honor its moral and legal obligations to compensate Ukraine to help them rebuild, other countries can--and should--seize Russia's sovereign assets and transfer them to Ukraine.

We are here to provide that leadership.

This really is a simple process, a simple matter. Russia broke it, they ought to pay for it.

The dollar is the clear and safe global standard for international investment--period.

U.S. leadership could help the European Union make a decision about this.

Well, I do not think any one of us on the panel have--and we probably should have a better perspective on this than you might, but I am going to ask you the question. That is the authority I have, to ask the question. Why in the hell are…

I think I know the answer, but did not Russia confiscate some assets of American companies--like airplanes and things like that?

Russia is a horrible representative of the international community and where the international community stands in 2023 and 2024.

What Putin has done in taking Navalny and Vladimir Kara-Murzoff and putting them into gulags... is putting their lives at risk.

We need to get the money there as quickly as possible, and continue the war, and supply the Ukrainians with the military that they need to win this war.

What Putin is doing in destroying the country of Ukraine is an attempt to genocide.

I think what Russia is doing is a violation of international law and needs to be condemned at every opportunity possible.

The question is not whether Russia must pay. The question is when.

It would be a cruel irony to deny Ukraine the lifesaving benefit of these assets by invoking precedents for Russia's sovereignty and property rights when Russia is blatantly violating Ukraine's basic right to even exist.

We must be using Russia's own money now, not just to rebuild destroyed homes after the war ends, but to be saving the lives of people who live in them now.

Janet Yellen said in October that she supports using some of the Russian--some of the income generated by the immobilized Russian assets to help Ukraine.

A country that has shown contempt for international law to the point where its president has been indicted as a war criminal should not enjoy the benefit of international legal protections.

Ukraine needs those assets now.

Neither the free world nor Ukraine can afford further delays.

I am grateful to be an original co-sponsor of the REPO--R-E-P-O--Act, which would enable the president to confiscate Russian sovereign assets.

Speaker Mike Johnson is correct: Putin will not stop in Ukraine and threatens, really, the security of all of Europe.

War criminal Putin has committed murderous atrocities against Ukrainians, including torture, systematic rape, and indiscriminate bombing of civilians.

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