[yawpitch]

Some of that 30% has both directly and indirectly empowered war crimes and has pushed on the accelerator of an unspeakable [and, sadly, irreversible] descent into the kind of mad fascistic experiment that always ends up driving many more. The seizure of means that you turn around and use for rent-seeking is morally indefensible in its own right, but it’s the unintended (yet obvious) consequences of that same self-serving and short-sighted impulse where the real moral trap lies.

[tome]

So it's not the stealing that was wrong, but what the proceeds were put to?

[yawpitch]

No, both are wrong, the war crimes are more wrong.