• tallwookie@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    how is Ukraine going to pay back America? they’ve got to be ~$10 billion or more in debt by now

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      1 year ago

      Most of the hardware and financial aid is donated. As far as I know the Biden administration even expressly rejected a lend-lease program so there is no pressure for Ukraine to pay it back.

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      1 year ago

      If Ukraine continues on the expected path, then it will be as wealthy as Germany in a few decades. It has the resources and the human capital to do so, all it needs is peace and a bit of help to get started.

      Unlike russia, which paid fuck all after WW2 lend-lease and stayed a shithole to this day.

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      1 year ago

      They are doing it every single day by blowing up Russian invaders. The payback is having a free democratic nation instead of enemy occupied territory.

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        1 year ago

        The payback is also the destruction of Russia’s military.

        Ukraine is basically providing a free service, the US (and rest of the world) is just paying for materials.

        Most importantly, the US gets to see Russia destroyed without dead US soldiers or nuclear war.

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        1 year ago

        as long as someone continues to export grain, no one actually cares who’s in charge

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          1 year ago

          If your chief concern really is grain supply, maybe you should oppose the country who invaded the Breadbasket of Europe and is actively fucking with that supply.

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            1 year ago

            not my concern, but the world’s. one could argue that by fighting back, Ukraine is making the situation worse

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              1 year ago

              Russia can end this war tomorrow by simply leaving Ukraine. Why does Russia continue to fuck with the grain supply?