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> Ukraine was a poor country It has a lot of nuclear physicists and rocket scientists. My uncle was a Ukrainian ICBM scientist! IMO, a quintessential American
by doctorpangloss 3y ago
> Ukraine was a poor country
It has a lot of nuclear physicists and rocket scientists. My uncle was a Ukrainian ICBM scientist!
IMO, a quintessential American foreign policy error is to measure the worth of others based only on purchasing power of imports; and then, even when they go past that 0th level of the expanding brain meme onto the value of human capital, the only human capital they value is traditional Western human capital.
Anyway, the engagement on this platform over foreign policy issues is great. I’m literally a product of foreign policy. Nearly everyone I know is affected by foreign policy. It’s valuable to have an opinion about this stuff.
- hgomersall 3y agoIt's a broad problem of the financialisation mindset - trying to view everything in monetary terms. It's particularly misleading when thinking about a sovereign government's fiscal policy, which always needs to be considered in terms of resourcing, not money.
- saati 3y ago> It has a lot of nuclear physicists and rocket scientists. And no way to finance them.
- kelipso 3y agoEven if they did, they wouldn't have been allowed to keep them due to not having political and military power. As in, if they had decided to keep the weapons, their borders would have been redrawn or they would have been militarily attacked.