Lady Astor was the first woman to take a seat in the British House of Commons. In 1933, she was at a cocktail party when someone asked, “Do you know where Hitler was born?” Without missing a beat, she replied, “At Versailles.” Her point was that harsh reparations meted out by the Treaty of Versailles after the first World War led to German resentment and the rise of the demagogue Hitler.
I fear many of my colleagues in the Senate, though well-intentioned, will repeat the same mistake of meting out punishment on Russia without considering the ramifications. The REPO Implementation Act of 2025 creates an actionable framework to seize Russian sovereign assets and provide them to Ukraine.
One can make a good argument for the
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