Quote from: dom on March 03, 2022, 10:26:29 PMQuote from: dom on March 03, 2022, 08:13:16 PMNumber of companies or individuals sanctioned for links to Putin:
🇪🇺 EU 446
🇨🇭 Switzerland 351
🇺🇸 USA 148
🇬🇧 UK 24
Come on Johnson! Get your finger out! Any reason for the stalling?
Still think this question needs answering. With so many Russian oligarchs having made their homes here and invested so much of their ill gotten gains in the UK why has its response been so poor compared to the likes of the US and the EU?
I honestly don't know what the real figures are; my own information was that over 100 people and entities had had their assets frozen by Feb 24th. So this notion of a poor response sounds a bit like spin to me. There's no doubt in any case that we've been pushing for harder sanctions on the international stage. Worth remembering also that the EU is a collection of countries so aggregating their effort, welcome though it may be, into a single score is not really helpful.
It might well be something like wanting to ensure that proper culpability is established, rather than just targeting people for being Russian.
Just read that two Kremlin associates were sanctioned this evening. It's a work in progress, as it must be.