"States at war generally adopt interventionist economic policies to mobilize resources and manpower. #Ukraine hasn’t followed suit, instead pursuing dogmatic free-marketeer measures that suit #Western creditors more than its own population."
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"Generally, #states at #war tend to nationalize key sectors of the economy to maximize armaments production and stabilize the civilian economy, both to prevent chaos in the rear and feed the army. Strangely, this has not taken place in #Ukraine"
"The idea that “#corruption” is the greatest barrier to development is a fiction used to justify trade #liberalization in which the stronger #Western capitalists inevitably win, to the detriment of the Ukrainian economy."
"in 2021 it signed a memorandum with the #IMF, where a first $700 million loan was conditional on the agreement that by May 2022, 50 percent of the gas market would be sold at (European) market prices, and by 2024, 100 percent. This would mean increasing consumer gas prices ...
... by more than 400 percent. Since Ukraine became dependent on #IMF credits in 2014, consumer gas prices have already increased by 650 percent."
"...Given the dependence of the post-Brexit #UK economy on low-paid Ukrainian migrant workers — with 67 percent of its farmworker visas in 2021 going to Ukrainians — it is no wonder that the British Foreign Office sponsors such #deregulation in Ukraine. ...
... A worsened labor market in #Ukraine would push even more Ukrainians to work in the #UK for wages far below British levels"
"By paying for housing, language education,& budget benefits, many of the refugees will choose to stay & work in the EU. What this means is that this aspect of aid “for #Ukraine” is subsidizing the integration of a cheap, educated workforce that will not return..."
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