Ukrainian’s ruler, Vladimir Zelensky has said he urged United States President-elect Donald Trump to hand over frozen Russian assets, so Kiev can buy more U.S. weapons and use the reserves as a security guarantee in potential peace negotiations with Moscow. The war path looks like it will continue into Trump’s second reign over the U.S.

Zelensky insisted that during Trump’s term, “a lot of money for… military industry, in Ukraine or in Europe, with India, Saudi Arabia, and the U.S.” will be necessary for the war efforts to continue, the Ukrainian leader insisted. Currently, approximately $300 billion in Russian central bank funds were frozen by the West after the escalation of conflict between Russia and Ukraine in February 2022. More than two-thirds of the sum of money, however, is being held in the European Union.

During a three-hour interview with U.S. podcaster Lex Fridman on Sunday, Zelensky claimed that “Ukraine wants peace,” but needs security guarantees that would last beyond the four years that Trump will be in the White House. –RT

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Zelensky pondered were the money to continue the war would come from and postulated a soluiton. “So the question is where you will get [the money]. My answer was to Trump. I said this is one of the security guarantees. Take $300 billion of frozen Russian assets. We will take it. Take money, what we need for our domestic production, and we will buy all the weapons from the U.S.,” he said.

Zelensky has been far from trustworthy so far, and he’s spend Western money on a mansion in Egypt instead of buying weapons with it.

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If Trump agrees to hand over $300 billion in Russian funds to Zelensky, the ruler said that that move “will be very good for your industry, for the U.S. We will put money there. Russian money, not Ukrainian, not European…. They have to pay for this… This is one of the security guarantees,” Zelensky explained.

Russian officials have repeatedly said the seizure of its funds would amount to theft and further undermine global trust in the Western financial system. Moscow has also warned that if necessary, it will respond in kind to such a move by the US and EU. –RT

So far, Russia has made a lot of threats and promises of retaliation, and the West hasn’t really felt the sting of those vows yet. It is difficult to say how many more red lines would need to be crossed for Russia to make a meaningful response against the West. The retalitory responses have been against Ukraine.