Subject: Re: another "poison pill"

What is not clear is whether this is because

- or he doesn't want a deal with the current regime, under any terms, ever.

It may be a comeback on the Mullahs' recent statement that they want their assets unfrozen - something like "if we were to unfreeze your assets we would use them to repair the destruction you caused".

Or he's taking a page from the playbook the EU has been talking about: liquidating frozen Russian assets to help finance Ukraine's defense, but flipping it around, so it's the attacker seizing the assets, instead of the country that was attacked.

Steve