• running_ragged@lemmy.world
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      16 days ago

      I don’t see how releasing frozen assets counts as any sort of reparations or rebuilding.

      If those claims are true, that will 100% be tax payer money.

      The administration and most of the media they have bought or bullied into submission will be doing everything in their power to keep the public confused about what money is is what, so they can keep saying ‘this is not your money’ and be misleading but technically correct about certain portions of it.

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      16 days ago

      The $300 billion is speculated to be entirely private investment based on the most credible sources I’ve seen.

      There’s also some large number ($100 billion???) of frozen Iranian assets that are to be released – it’s already their money just that they were cut off from it and it’s a separate pool of money from the $300 billion.

      As I said, some of this is speculation as of last I read about out (few hours ago), numbers and sources are subject to change, and these administrations are known for their lies, so don’t take my words or theirs as gospel.