• MarxMadness@lemmygrad.ml
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      Ukraine needs to lock in what it has already achieved

      What exactly do they think they’ve achieved at this point?

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      for Western taxpayers, the war in Ukraine is a remarkably cost-effective way to degrade Russia’s military capabilities without risking a single life.

      It is well known in Amerikkka that eastern europeans aren’t living beings.

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        They will be able to purchase all of Ukraine once the war is over, so it’s not a bad economic outlook at all for the US bourgeoisie lol

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        Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of the past year is how well the economy has held up under the strain of war and occupation, even allowing for the fact that around 70% of the Ukrainian budget is covered by international assistance. Inflation has been kept under control, falling from 27% in December to 11% last month. GDP will grow slightly next year by 1%-2%.

        Yes, shooting a dying geriatric with steroids to make them stand up is not a bad outlook

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            Dude, I’m going to show you how to get rich with this simple trick:

            step 1: find a dependent capitalist country and destabilize its government

            step 2: find a way to destroy it’s public infrastructure. Just coopt a local comprador class and defund everything, but if all else fails just start a war.

            And so on.

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            Well, I’m Brazilian so I can tell you: they’ll do it as many times as we allow them.

            Since the 90s we had at least three neoliberal waves in Brazil with mass privatization and austerity measures, punctuated by center-left periods of “it’s ok to enrich banks but let’s at least guarantee that people can eat” periods.