This is a strange development for a nation supposedly fighting for freedom. Seizing private property on a vast scale without compensation sounds a lot like something Robert Mugabe would do. The current owners may have to wait a long time for payment, considering that the purchaser is bankrupt.
Ukraine government authorities vowed in the Monday statement that “After martial law is lifted, these assets may be returned to their owners or their value may be reimbursed.” And further, “These enterprises must operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week for the needs of the state’s defense.”
“In connection with military necessity, a decision was made to expropriate the assets of strategically important enterprises into state ownership,” the Secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, Oleksiy Danilov, explained further in a joint presser.
Common actions in wartime. Every nation has done it to my knowledge. National survival leaves little room for niceties.
Clayton. Exactly
Dementia Joe invoked the Defense Production Act
The Biden Administration is now looking at Elon Musk as a national security concern
Well not really.
No Nazis in the Ukraine, right?
You mean like the private US assets that Castro seized in Cuba?
Ukraine is a very corrupt place. Don’t expect the rule of law to prevail.
AB
Ukraine is a very corrupt place. Agreed.
So is Russia.
joe
The USA and Europe, just about destroyed the Russian economy after the USSR collapsed. And Putin brought things back up to were they are now. There is an excellent book written about it. I wondered why the news about Putin was always negative, it was so to cover up for the scam artistes. I was never a Putin fan, but now I realize that they have been doing the same to Putin, that they did to Trump, and Sarah Palin. Time to fix news out lets, with rope and lamp posts . Also read a comment piece about how many of the things blamed on Putin , have never been proven, so possibly CIA false flags.
“..The USA and Europe, just about destroyed the Russian economy after the USSR collapsed..”
Total BS.
The USSR was a closed, authoritarian empire.
When the system collapsed, it’s ruler, Russia, suffered the most. Moscow couldn’t order, and claim the wealth of 200 million non Russians.
Nothing to do with the US.
Russia is far more corrupt than Ukraine. The typical Ukrainian has a far higher standard of living than ordinary Russians.
I read the words “may be” twice in the government release… Which means “will not be”…
Fighting for freedom. Lol. Good one!
They are fighting for national independance. But freedom? No way.
BSmith
They are fighting to enrich Blackrock and Vangard, plus DNC scum!
A nation under siege, fighting for survival and resisting genocide, nationalizes strategic assests in order to survive and resist genocide. Shocking, it is unherad off, they’re doing what everyone in their circumstances would do. How dare they?
Clutch those pearls a little harder for best effect.
“A nation under siege, fighting for survival and resisting genocide”
That’s where I stopped reading, right there. Grow up.
Too many syllables?
“Too many syllables?”
No. Using big words that you don’t actually know the meaning of just makes you look childish, and I gave up trying to reason with children years ago (it’s like trying to teach a dog calculus)…
Don’t give up, just because you lack the cognitive abilities of a labradoodle it does not mean you can’t be taught.
“Don’t give up, just because you lack the cognitive abilities of a labradoodle it does not mean you can’t be taught.”
Says the guy who doesn’t know what a ‘genocide’ is (or isn’t). Keep trying.
“These enterprises must operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week for the needs of the state’s defense.”
At what pay rates?
Or is it slave labour for the employees?
And what about any staff with shares in the company?
Will they be “Traitors” if they complain about this theft and being impressed into “Dear Leaders” service?
I can imagine the new “State Controllers” demanding their victims respect their authority as they screw every thing up.
Blind obedience can be even more destructive than deliberate sabotage..
And if you are to be shot for questioning idiot orders?
You just help real good…
No different than the way Canada ran its economy in WW1 and WW2.
I condemn this as I do the military draft. The US did the same and worse in WW2 and were still the good guys.
UnMe
I’m curious, how would you stop an invader from over running your country?
Much as Ukraine is doing, without the draft ie slavery or nationalization ie stealing.
Even if not having a draft means loosing to an invader that has the draft?
A country that cannot convince its people to fight for it either deserves to stop existing or its people don’t deserve it.
Again you represent monkey with a straight razor level of understanding. By the same logic you could demand that state does not tax people to fund armed forces but instead people should be buying whatever weapons they see fit.
“A country that cannot convince its people to fight for it either deserves to stop existing or its people don’t deserve it.”
Interesting
Does this apply to First Nations in Canada? Do you think they should stop existing as Nations? And we should stop acknowledging unceded territory?
“A country that cannot convince its people to fight for it either deserves to stop existing or its people don’t deserve it.”
He asked you how you would STOP the invasion, and you answered with a platitude.
That’s some funny shit right there.
@joe – “I’m curious, how would you stop an invader from over running your country?”
UnMe fully supports the invasion of his own country including, kidnapping, slavery, murder and the support of cartels becoming rich off the deaths of his own fellow citizens.
He only cares about foreign borders when it’s fashionable with the crazy’s.
Not really. The US government seized the assets of individuals and companies it considered enemies of the State; which included German, Japanese, and Italian nationals. Not the same thing.
I don’t know about the US but I imagine it was no different that Britain where they told industry what they were going to do, told workers where they were going to work and taxed any industrial profit at a 100% tax rate. They figured if they needed to draft soldiers to fight they were going to draft industry the same way and it was the necessary and right thing to do.
You left out the part where Japanese and some other people got interned and IIRC had their stuff stolen.
That’s because it’s not important.
One of the companies that the Ukrainian Government has taken over is Motor Sich a manufacturer of Turbine engines for helicoptors. The (now former) owner, a pro-Putin oligarch was arrested and charged last week for allegedly having been supplying Russia with helicopter engines during the past nine months ie while Ukraine was at war with Russia. If true this is the same scenario as you described above.
Is it just me? Or is Ukraine looking a LOT like Venezuela? All that’s missing is Sean Penn.
Oh! Wait! …
https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Sean-Penn-loans-Oscar-to-Zelenskyy-until-Ukraine-17570972.php
Sorry who invaded Venezuela?
Colon Idiot
The WEF, got it fool?
Whoooosh.
The Socialist scum … just like Zelensky … living off other peoples money … and real estate
Facepalm, so Zelesnky invaded Ukraine then? Oh boy, you’re getting more deranged every day.
As for socialists invading Venezuela, not true again. Venezuelans brought the socialists upon themselves. No invasion. Enthusiastically welcomed, even those who are now protesting had no problems when Chavez went after the productive minority in that shithole. Such is the nature of turd world shitholes.
“may”
From Europe’s most corrupt government. Drowning in US money.
Fascists are gonna fasch.
Just out of curiosity: how many of the oh so outraged Broshevik libertarians commenting above are outraged by Pootin’s draft, mobilization and control of industry?
Well there’s me. That’s one.
Yes you are consistently stupid, others are cynical hypocrites.
COLON, the STUPID calling unDORK the Stupid, stupid, Popcorn time!
So apart for UnMe who else?
/—- crickets chirping —-/
Putin is evil and he and Russia are corrupt. Zelinsky is evil and he and the Ukraine are corrupt. Why would someone cheer for ether of this corrupt evils. Personally I just hope they destroy each other.
One of the most corrupt nations on the planet. Which explains why Biden is so insistent on defending it.
“One of the most corrupt nations on the planet. Which explains why Biden is so insistent on defending it.”
Yup. He and his family have also made a lot of money there.
No wonder Dear Leader and Ms. Disney + like the Ukraine so much.
The deranged Davos parrot squawks up a storm for attention in order to divert our eyes from the truth. Sad.
When the UK went to war in the Falklands they commandeered a number of passengers ship and freighters to carry the invasion force. They were paid for their efforts but there was no choice. Standard fare in time of war. That is also a good reason for a country to maintain a merchant navy.