Russia-Ukraine Invasion

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    TIL that aid packages, and all those fancy words they use to label money and goods sent to other nations is actually a loan. The names make it sound like it's charity, when it's debt. Debt that most struggling nations, including Ukraine, will never recover from. So the west gets a proxy war while also collecting interest payments on the money they keep sending for a very long time.

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    • We need debt, to feed the cycle, as all fiat is based on as spiralling system of debt, that eventually implodes.shapesalad
    • Britain only finished paying back the States for WWI in 2015 or so, and WW2 a few years prior. it's either debt or death. Which would you choose?Nairn
    • There’s no profit in peace.PhanLo
    • So we should just give money? They shouldn’t pay it back when they can?
      Access to liquidity is itself a favor.      cannonball1978
    • Of course there's profit in peace. It's just that also, man likes to kill man, so there's a shitload of profit in weapons too.Nairn
    • I suspect Ukr is getting very favourable rates on some of the newer, unpracticed weapons, in return for valuable feedback.Nairn
    • I'm not commenting on whether it should be free or not. Just the reality of it and the way they present it, many people think it's gifted.ETM
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