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The West's Patience Is Running Shorter Than Ukraine's War (www.bloomberg.com)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (11 children)

I'm curious what they base the assessment that Ukraine's economic outlook is not bad on.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Poor fucks are gonna get it twice in 30 years.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year 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.

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