(It seems to be, at the same time, a rebuttal of the neoliberal cliché that opening markets is always good while protectionism is bad.)
(It seems to be, at the same time, a rebuttal of the neoliberal cliché that opening markets is always good while protectionism is bad.)
The people who allow those loans know that Ukraine won’t win, they knew all along, they’re just gonna use the debt to seize the entire country. They basically are buying an entire nation for a fraction of its price
Oh yeah, for sure, but we(sterners) are winning as long as Ukraine joins our side(, and plays its role against Russia), whether it gains back the Donbass and Crimea or not doesn’t have as much of an impact on us as it has on them(, it’s kinda the contrary since it’s a useful topic to heighten their anti-russian stance and drive them away from the feeling of belonging to the russian world, permanently crippling it).
The only way for us to lose would be if Ukraine somehow chose to join Russia(, if it’s possible to feel european and ukrainian, then it’s also possible to feel russian and ukrainian). I may be naive to believe that it’s still possible, it’d be in Russia&Ukraine’s interests i suppose.