Europe Wants to Seize Russia’s Money. The Real Risk Is to the West.
Europe is preparing to turn Russia’s three hundred billion dollars of frozen reserves into reconstruction funds for Ukraine. On paper, it looks like a moral victory. In reality, it may be the most dangerous financial decision the West has made in decades.
The entire Western-led financial system rests on one belief:
money held in Western banks is politically neutral.
Seizing Russia’s assets breaks that rule — and once you break a rule of that scale, trust does not come back.
From inside the SWIFT system, I saw how fragile cross-border trust truly is. When it erodes, the system does not collapse overnight; it becomes slower, more political, and less reliable. That shift is already happening.
Meanwhile, Russia is not helpless. Western companies still hold nearly one trillion dollars in assets inside Russia. If Europe confiscates Russian reserves, Moscow can — and likely will — take what remains within its borders.
Countries like China, India, and the Gulf states are watching quietly. Their conclusion is simple:
If Europe can seize Russia’s reserves today, it can seize anyone’s tomorrow.
That is how global power shifts — not through war, but through lost confidence.
👉 Read the full analysis on munaeem.com
https://munaeem.com/2025/12/05/seizing-russias-money-may-end-the-wests-power-not-putins/
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