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  • Other than seizing assets in the US, as someone else mentioned, there are methods for international collections.

    It’s a very different case, but if you go read the website of the CJIB, the Dutch Central Fine Collection Agency, they say that if you are a foreigner who gets a speeding ticket in the Netherlands, and you don’t pay expecting to avoid being charged as you don’t have any financial presence there, they will just go to Belgium as they own SWIFT, and quite literally just debit your bank account in your country directly without needing the consent of any other party, including you, your bank or your country.

    Similarly, remember the Kim Dotcom case, where the guy expected to avoid the RIAA by doing his piracy in a country where it was technically legal, and the FBI still raided his home in a way that was technically massively illegal?

    When there is a will, there is a way. On the other hand, the US does not like to bother corps though.







  • Don’t get me wrong, I actually don’t mind Russians being able to make a better life for themselves, I’m happy for them if they can leave and move and be happy.

    It’s just that Russian spies have been moving openly in Budapest, several years ago there was this one guy who defaced a Soviet monument - that IMO has no place standing outside a museum, much less Freedom Square in Budapest. A random Chechen without ID or documentation or a reason for being in the country or Schengen appeared and coerced the guy to apologize publicly.

    It’s a disgrace that an undocumented Russian citizen can appear in an EU country, brazenly commit a crime of coercion against an EU citizen while livestreaming it on Youtube, and the authorities of said country just stand by doing nothing and covering for him.

    All I’m saying is that I have no illusions of the intentions of Hungary’s government in removing all visa restrictions, specifically and only for Russian and Belarusian citizens.