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For someone to sell, there needs to be someone to buy.

GP is saying that nobody sane is gonna buy these securities, so divesting isn’t really possible, and thus blocking divestiture is kinda meaningless. You’re blocking people from doing something they can’t do anyway.

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There is always a buyer of distressed assets. Always. It may not seem like a wise investment to the average HNer but there is an entire world of investing other people's money on different kinds of assets.

And Russia has a lot of desirable assets that could reap dividends after the war is over.

My guess is that given Russias energy reserves (they won’t go away due to war) that there’d be a non zero number of people willing to buy the bounce on that at a minimum.

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