How Any Ukrainian Can Instantly Stop The Russia-EU Collusion
The title here is a little misleading because it includes some non EU countries like Switzerland and the UK. It also refers to Western companies providing critical machine tools and services to the Russian War Crimes Industrial Complex. These countries while all claiming to 100% support Ukraine and who have given lots of aid to Ukraine are also providing critical support to the Russian War Crimes Machine and helping them to continue the war.
Next, the Moral GPS is not legal advice disclaimer must be wheeled out again. Actually figure out everything and consult with lawyers etc. before blindly following what you read on the internet even if it’s Moral GPS.
OK so now for how any Ukrainian can stop the flow of critical machine tools, software and technical support services. This is pretty simple: sue the companies and the countries and the EU itself. Any Ukrainian living in Ukraine can sue claiming that the companies, the people associated with them and the countries (including the EU) are working together with Russia to commit the war crimes of targeting civilians directly with attacks on apartment buildings and targeting the power grid to freeze civilians to death along with war of aggression (and any other war crimes or crimes against humanity that are applicable) etc. You can also include tons of other potential rights that you can choose from in the European Convention on Human Rights and Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (both documents for instance include Dignity and Right to Life since Russia is targeting and mass murdering civilians). These lawsuits must be filed in national courts and possibly EU courts (for EU Courts you need specifically tailor it to EU law and the powers of the EU To force its Member States to not provide equipment and services for Russian War crimes). If you lose in national courts you will to to the European Court of Human Rights (Unfortunately you can’t directly send your lawsuit to this court. You have to first lose your case in national courts.) The ECHR has the widest jurisdiction especially because it includes Ukraine and EU states and countries like Switzerland and the UK. Sadly you can’t just get the ECHR to instantly ban this. This is why you should sue in national courts along with the EU. Potentially a lawsuit in the EU courts could quickly be resolved into a total EU ban along with countries outside the EU because The court could require the EU to alter its relationships with other countries who do not go along with the ban. Countries like Switzerland and the UK could lose economic and connections with the EU if they don’t comply. The good news here is that it’s unlikely that you’ll have to go through a massive legal struggle since European countries don’t want to be seen as openly committing war crimes with Russia. There will be lots of pressure put on these countries and most likely there will be good court rulings or sanctions packages or something else that will be very helpful.
Unfortunately, East Asian countries aren’t covered by European courts and they don’t have something similar to either the ECHR or the EU courts so you’d have to take a chance with courts in their countries and see if you can win there. These countries will Also not want to be exposed publicly for Committing war crimes with Russia and there will be good court rulings or sanctions packages or something else that will be very helpful.
Criminal prosecutions and lawsuits, that would be big enough to bankrupt these war criminals providing services and equipment to Russia for the purposes of murdering civilians, are a good idea and should also be pursued. Nevertheless, the main focus must be on getting courts to ban support for Russia’s War Crimes Machine. This will have an immediate impact on the battlefield and everyone can then sue these war criminals into the ground and put them in jail.
Bonus Round: Many of these companies (and even some other companies such as global defense contractors that have done work for Russia) have potentially either deceived or not disclosed these activities to investors. This means that some type of shareholder lawsuits against these companies may be possible. So anyone who invested in these companies (which could be a lot of people since some of them are in index funds) could potentially be able to sue. However, this depends on a ton of things and you’d have to handle it correctly which definitely means you’d need to get real legal professional advice. Internet bullshit and asking Chat GPT will not cut it. Our disclaimer once again that this isn’t investment or legal advice.
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