(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.)
Like you say though, Ukraine almost certainly won’t be paying everyone back for their aid. So it doesn’t even support the giving country’s economy, all it does is make the books seem balanced right now by including debt that will inevitably need to be written off. So the current government doesn’t look so bad, while the actual money problem belongs to a future government.