So in a few years Ukraine is going to sell it’s horribly in-debt military to a larger firm that’s just buying them to try and secure their market share and only like the 5ish founding members will walk away with any money while the rest of the firm is stuck unemployed in the Cali housing market?
Actually no that sounds pretty accurate.
— “They’re running the war as though it were a business, you see. Every country needs to be able to defend themselves, after all, and there aren’t many alternative market systems which encourage offering support. So, ultra-liberalist states can send lethal aid to one another in exchange for favors, much like a bank would provide a loan to a new company. But unlike a bank, the repayment doesn’t necessarily have to be fiscal. Economies damaged by the war effort can be bolstered through alternative diplomatic channels.”
[Hard: Success] — Two oceans away, in a town whose name you’ll never know, cluster bombs blow craters into the surrounding mud. The land swallows up untold gallons of blood and fuel, drawing it deep within itself; too deep for it to ever be drawn back out again. In the air is a chill, and the stenches of black powder and copper. A century from now, un-detonated landmines will still take lives of those who tread here.
— “Like a startup.” — “Like a startup.”
