Its in retaliation to US/US Allies previously seizing Russian Assets abroad. Its a two edged sword mate!
While the average pleb regards private property as sacrosanct , Government behave otherwise. In the 1930s the US Government confiscated Gold belonged to its own citizens and this was not even during War!
FDR issued an exec order 6102 to confiscate US citizens' Gold and more recent to that we have had our own law to confiscate Gold to protect our currency.
Even though both laws have subsequently been repealed, a simple stroke of a politician's pen could re-enact them.
