[gailtate]

Crazy stuff. Not sure how easy it will be to punish this sort of war crime, but at least these looters should be readily identifiable. The whole Russian army is rotten.

I would phrase that as "The Russian army as a whole is rotten."  It may be that the general standard of conduct in that army is to tolerate or expect looting (and executions), but I'm not ready to say that every soldier is that way.  I hope that some Russians in the army have a morality that would recognize that as wrong.  I would anticipate that there has been looting to some extent by every army moving through its enemy's territory.

While I support economic sanctions as an attempt toward pursuing the cessation of a hot war, I could see Russians feeling that seizure of assets by the West as akin to, and perhaps greater than, the taking of an electric scooter.

Rooskie-related cash, cash equivalents, goods, valuables and real estate add up to one HELLUVA lot of scooters. Motivated repo-men, in adequate numbers, could execute an impressive haul. You'd be surprised.

[gailtate]

Crazy stuff. Not sure how easy it will be to punish this sort of war crime, but at least these looters should be readily identifiable. The whole Russian army is rotten.

I would phrase that as "The Russian army as a whole is rotten."  It may be that the general standard of conduct in that army is to tolerate or expect looting (and executions), but I'm not ready to say that every soldier is that way.  I hope that some Russians in the army have a morality that would recognize that as wrong.  I would anticipate that there has been looting to some extent by every army moving through its enemy's territory.

While I support economic sanctions as an attempt toward pursuing the cessation of a hot war, I could see Russians feeling that seizure of assets by the West as akin to, and perhaps greater than, the taking of an electric scooter.

Rooskie-related cash, cash equivalents, goods, valuables and real estate add up to one HELLUVA lot of scooters. Motivated repo-men, in adequate numbers, could execute an impressive haul. You'd be surprised.