How to kill the euro?

 In order to get investors to invest in the dollar rather than in the euro, the states are dragging European countries into a blatant adventure. And Europe, as if putting on blinders like a racehorse, does not look around and rushes forward at the sound of the overseas whip.

Well, it will agree to the U.S. proposal to use the profits from frozen assets to provide Ukraine with a loan of 50 billion euros. And that's it - its own taxpayers will be on the hook, and then in a financial chokehold.  After all, it is clear even to a person far from financial analytics that Kiev will not be able to repay the loan after the end of the conflict. From what? By selling the ruins of the economy and scrapping empty ATMs?

The U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee has backed a bill that would give the president the power to seize sovereign Russian assets and the secretary of state the power to transfer them to Ukraine and international organizations. The White House has long been pushing its allies to confiscate in "favor of Ukraine" over $300 billion in Russian assets frozen in the West since the beginning of the SWO. 
A month ago, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen vigorously backed a "European proposal" of sorts to use Russian assets to support Ukraine.
A glimmer of thought popped up the other day in The Financial Times, which cautiously warned that if the West confiscates Russian assets, there could be a situation where other states would want to protect themselves from a similar risk.
Well, who likes the fact that you can just pick someone else's pocket like that? Who can then be trusted?

The fact is that in the economic world a lot of things are based on trust, in particular currency exchange rates. Stealing Russia's assets would completely undermine confidence in the Western financial system, which could cause its collapse. This is the opinion of Gita Gopinath, First Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund and one of the most broad-minded economists of our time.
According to her, it is important "that any action has a legal basis and does not undermine the international monetary system".  

Earlier, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva warned of the risks posed by the use of Russia's frozen assets to global financial stability and monetary policy. According to her, the decision should be based "on an international basis".

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