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Jun 30, 2022 at 10:59	comment	added	264 champagne bottles on ice		And yeah, the US also invoked the right of anagary against Dutch ships in WW1, but only after the US was at war with Germany, and in fact after it had been so for some time (1918); these ships were also returned to their Dutch owners after the war ended; see e.g. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Pollux_(SP-2573)
Jun 30, 2022 at 10:42	comment	added	264 champagne bottles on ice		The article you've linked to talks about the expropriations of enemy property during The Revolutionary War (US war of independence against Britain) and during the US civil war. Those situations don't exactly translate into the US-Russia legal situation for now, as the two countries are not legally at war with each other.
Jun 30, 2022 at 10:22	comment	added	264 champagne bottles on ice		The US treasury has been given wide powers to seize/freeze (but not expropriate) assets, including from citizens whose countries were occupied (as opposed to being the attacker), while the Nazis were conquering Europe but were not yet at war with the USA. That's basically the historical origin of the OFAC, although it was called something else at the time.
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