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Latvia has a population you need to subsidize? What do you mean by that?
by kaitnieks 10y ago
Latvia has a population you need to subsidize? What do you mean by that?
- zilean 10y agoYou cant just occupy country w/o sanctions, export/import chains breaking, you need to rebuild what would be inevitably destroyed during the invasion, etc.
- mzs 10y agoUkraine shows how much can be tolerated.
- zilean 10y agoWell, Russian economy is still in recession. And Russian forces tecchnically never fired a gun in Ukraine or Crimea.
- Steko 10y agoRussian forces have fired many guns in Ukraine, full stop. http://bigstory.ap.org/article/a419b994ccf14a42977665a9af966ec3/report-russians-regularly-shelled-eastern-ukraine-2014 http://bigstory.ap.org/article/a419b994ccf14a42977665a9af966...
- vkou 10y agoWhen Russia occupied Crimea, Ukraine pulled out all support for the region's infrastructure. (Electricity, etc.) Quite naturally, Russia had to foot the bill to replace it. The only way to get around that is to seize the entire country.