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To: buwaya

Sorry, but Russia was not for sale as was Ukraine. Most of what Ukraine sold off to the West is now or soon going to be under Russian Management. Ukraine will be the worst investment the western nations ever made - but anything left of Ukraine after the war will be the 51st State of America because they are bankrupted and owe more than what will be left.


183 posted on 06/23/2024 8:14:08 PM PDT by Jumper
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To: Jumper

You are proclaiming with no facts.

And countries being “for sale”, as if that is a problem, is dumb economics. You sound like the 1980s characters complaining that the Japanese were buying everything in the US.

The Chinese got rich by encouraging FDI (Foreign Direct Investment) back in the 1980s-2010s. Thats how they built an industrial base. The Russians did the same, they were “for sale”, in the 1990s-2010s. Thats how they got their oil and gas production going.

It sounds good as propaganda of course, those evil foreigners buying everything with their nasty dollars. It was, naturally, one of the themes of Soviet propaganda, but they didnt invent it.

The problem is there might be idiots that believe it, and so cripple their countries. Its one reason that Argentina became what it is.


190 posted on 06/23/2024 9:23:15 PM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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