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The West's Patience Is Running Shorter Than Ukraine's War (www.bloomberg.com)
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[–] swiftessay@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

It's ripe for some good old neoliberal shock therapy and mass privatization.

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

BlackRock be like

[–] swiftessay@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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.

[–] Iceman@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Poor fucks are gonna get it twice in 30 years.

[–] swiftessay@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 11 months ago

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.