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lapfog_1

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1. austerity is almost never the answer.
Sat Jul 20, 2024, 12:05 AM
Jul 2024

His policies will just make the situation worse for the Argentinians.

Usually this will end rather badly... autocrats often turn to scapegoats, ones they can blame for their economic woes. Sometimes this can lead to war... as war is a sort of appeal to patriotism ( everything must go to the war effort ), xenophobia, and, instead of austerity, the government checkbook is wide open.

So I guess Chile, Brazil, and England ( second Falkland war ) should keep on their toes.

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