Mario Draghi, former President of the European Central Bank and former Italian Prime Minister—the man who, according to several accounts, engineered the seizure of $300 billion in Russian central bank assets—performed a warmonger ritual at MIT yesterday. Many say it was in hope of getting a post as the next NATO secretary-general.
Draghi was awarded the $200,000 Miriam Pozen Prize by MIT’s Golub Center for Finance and Policy, saying in his award speech that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was premeditated. “The brutal Russian invasion of Ukraine was not an unpredictable act of folly,” he said, but “a premeditated move” by Putin, and “an intentional blow to the EU.”
