I do not understand all this international law and I doubt any neutrality. The main point is that lots of people stash assets in the US and they wonder when they might be declared the enemy.
I read some article. It said that that there were hundreds of billions of Russian assets to be seized by the EU. However they mostly disappeared. Some one went into bonds and how they could be sold to other people who had every right to sell them.
In addition to Hudson, there was some documentary on Britain, The Spider's Wed, about how Britain established a similar network for dark money to end up in Britain. Again, over my head. Hudson said there was something similar due to the US.
https://youtu.be/np_ylvc8Zj8 The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire | Documentary Film
Independent POV
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5,388,078 views Sep 14, 2018
Michael Oswald's film The Spider's Web reveals how at the demise of empire, City of London financial interests created a web of secrecy jurisdictions that captured wealth from across the globe and hid it in a web of offshore islands. Today, up to half of global offshore wealth is hidden in British jurisdictions and Britain and its dependencies are the largest global players in the world of international finance.
Also
https://youtu.be/gyk12Wf_TeQ How London became the dirty money capital of the world | FT Film
Financial Times
901K subscribers
1,329,439 views Apr 21, 2022 #dirtymoney #VladimirPutin #cash
Russian oligarchs and companies have been investing in London for two decades, encouraged by British politicians of all stripes, but critics say the 'London laundromat' cleans dirty money from Russia and across the globe. The FT examines why it took Russia's invasion of Ukraine to put the issue in the spotlight and whether new sanctions and measures to tackle the problem go far enough. Read more at
https://on.ft.com/3OtRKpp
