Russia and Ukraine flashpoint

[shavenferret]

Bofferbrauer2 said:

shavenferret said:

Ahhh, the old question of restraint vs doing what we all want/need.  

Yesn't

If it's frozen, it can be frozen pretty much indefinitely, so it's a net loss for Russia.

But if it would be spent, it would get unfrozen for this and thus would need to pay back Russia that sum.

Effectively, if we were to spend the frozen assets, we would pretty much pay for Russia's recovery after the war - and I'm pretty sure nobody wants to give them another head start like that.

We would need to pay Russia back for that?  Is there a precedent for that statement Boffer? In other words, when has this happened before?