why is democracy the goal? democratic nations have pretty much universally profited from the plunder and destruction of poor nations.
the british empire, the french empire, the german empire, the american empire. democracy is a tool of imperialism and colonialism. when those avenues for extracting wealth fail, what’s left? increasing concentration of power and wealth to the rich, privatization of public goods, right-wing extremism, and societal stagnation through a return to conservative values.
seizing their assets will
why is democracy being seen as an end and not a means? isn’t the goal supposed to be to raise the standard of living of people in developing or emerging economies, to reduce income inequality, to combat climate change, and/or to improve support and infrastructure for disadvantaged people and their communities?
in a state with limited political goodwill, why isn’t more effort spent on actually benefiting the people instead of maintaining institutions that evidently degrade the minute attention shifts away from them?
yes but my freedum
yes but political pandering
communist country executes bourgeois, capitalists horrified
$12 billion dollars is the equivalent of the 1.3 million years of work in vietnam. that’s the livelihoods of more than 34000 people, stolen to profit one person.
yes but see china bad
and yet coal power plant utilization is dropping like a rock
turns out that when profit isn’t the only driving factor behind infrastructure, you can afford to do what’s best for the people (stable power supply by ramping coal production up/down to smooth supply from renewables) rather than what’s best for profits (running new coal plants at full bore)
Yes, but that makes the propaganda sound bad.
(you also need the tape read/write machine and a storage system, but those aren’t that expensive either).
Go home Russia shill
stfu Russia shill
They’re different stories about different statements from different countries. Estonia, Germany, and Poland all independently made statements, not as a single joint statement.
If this is a policy going forward, it should be listed as a rule.
Won’t stop the reports, but thanks for checking!
This headline is the one that loads in Google. Business Insider has changed it since then.
Rip :(
Some people only want to consume news from the Anglosphere. That’s fine, but it goes against the notion of having world news from the world.
Mother and Infant Daily, truly the most trustworthy source in modern journalism.
However, the only investment the government has made so far has been a $35 million grant to BAE Systems to increase production at a New Hampshire factory making chips for military aircraft, including F-15 and F-35 jets, according to Bloomberg.
So communist democracy is the solution?