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Is Argentina salvageable? Argentina is like the Philippines of South America. Full of promise, full of underachievement.
Which is funny cos Argentina is the most white of Latin American countries. Compared to other Latin American countries, most of the natives in Argentina was decimated, meaning Argentina has the most European looking faces in Latin America because of white colonist-settlers.
I thought white/Caucasian is supposed to be rich and developed and prosperous?
Corruption, political dysfunctional, social welfare state etc
Dunno. Argentine has defaulted a lot of times, so China should have some strong collateral in case the next government try to play any games
The reason for rhetorical questions is because they don't want to rub salt into sore and bruised Western wounds.
A few hours ago I was at the bookstore looking at a book called America in Decline. This white dude walks in and glares at me like he wants me dead.
No, Ukraine was better off being neutral and not being in either economic block. Once Ukraine joins the EU all of their trade with Russia will have to be regulated under EU law. This means a lot of things. For example no more gas discounts. Plus because of tariffs and sanctions the EU has on Russia a lot of commerce Ukraine has with Russia would be curtailed. Ukraine has no alternative market in the EU for most of their products.
Ukrainian heavy industry produces things which have limited value in the EU since the EU produces better products itself. This includes things like gas turbine engines for marine and helicopter applications. Good luck competing with the likes of Safran for this.
Their other major produce, food, well the EU already has to pay farmers not to produce food as it is. There is loads of extraneous food production in the EU and a lot of it is given away basically for free to 3rd world countries just to get rid of it.
Just look at what happened to Ukrainian GDP ever since 2014 happened. Where is this supposed wealth increase. This even neglects looking at the deeper impacts. The rise in the consumer gas price had a major impact on ordinary people in Ukraine including the poorest. Millions of Ukrainians migrated to Poland and Russia and other places.
You ignore that joining the EU had several negative impacts on those countries as well. Poland used to manufacture their own tanks and now they purchase second hand tanks from Germany. They used to produce their own helicopters but because they now have to follow EU standards of fuel efficiency and the like they would have had to upgrade their helicopters. This meant they replaced helicopter engines with US made ones. This made their helicopters no longer cost effective. Much of Polish heavy industry collapsed overnight. There are factories in Poland, sure, Germany moved a lot of factories to Poland to take advantage of lower wages there. But good luck finding any Polish heavy industry owned by Poles today. A lot of people moved abroad and remittances allowed the general standard of life in Poland to go up incrementally. Eventually new industries like software popped up and this soaked up some of the workforce.
A lot of it is influenced by commodity prices in the international market. This is cyclical.
There was plenty of growth in Russian GDP from 2000 to 2014.
A lot of people seem to think joining the EU is some kind of panacea or money tree. Sure, they will grant you cohesion funds in the first decade you join or whatever. You plough those into infrastructure. You build roads so German cars will sell well and build railroads to have French or Italian trains in them. Then you start paying back.
Ukraine's problems were self-inflicted and unless they solve their problems the EU won't even let them in.
Does this mean JF17 or J10 sales @siegecrossbow
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