jeffw@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agoG7 agrees to loan Ukraine $50 billion from the interest on frozen Russian assetswww.npr.orgexternal-linkmessage-square30fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
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minus-squarePahassaPaikassa@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months agoHaving debt is not bad in it self. The UK paid their last WW1 debts back in 2011 or something. I know the UK is in a bad state but it is not because of those war debts.
minus-squareanticolonialist@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·5 months agoThe UK didnt have trillions of dollars in natural resources that were wanted by the US
minus-squarenxdefiant@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 months agoUkraine feeds a lot of the world, and it’s in everyone’s best interest that it keeps doing that.
minus-squarezephyreks@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down2·5 months agoCounterexample: Haiti’s independence debts from France for daring to free slaves
minus-squarePahassaPaikassa@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-25 months agoI should have said “debt is not always bad.”
Having debt is not bad in it self. The UK paid their last WW1 debts back in 2011 or something. I know the UK is in a bad state but it is not because of those war debts.
The UK didnt have trillions of dollars in natural resources that were wanted by the US
Ukraine feeds a lot of the world, and it’s in everyone’s best interest that it keeps doing that.
Counterexample: Haiti’s independence debts from France for daring to free slaves
I should have said “debt is not always bad.”
thank you