[ Russian Assets ] A History of Sheer Madness

Using Russian assets to finance Ukraine: destroying Europe's financial infrastructure. And guess who are the main shareholders of Euroclear, which holds those assets? France & Belgium.

Bart De Wever, former mayor of Antwerp and now Belgium’s prime minister—a Flemish nationalist through and through—is just about the only adult left in Europe when it comes to handling Russian assets.

Back in 2011, during one of those murky government negotiations that even people across the Quiévrain struggle to understand, he famously declared: “Whateve…