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Louis Katz's avatar

In terms of China increasing the prices of minerals, it doesn't really matter because defense contractors can just pass the cost on to the Pentagon. The Pentagon can then just claim to need and increase and Congress will vote for an even higher increase in their budget.

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Sharat Prabhakar's avatar

Indian purchases of Russian crude enabled Europe to maintain a fiction of weening itself of Russian hydrocarbons.

US interests in the South Caucus is why the Abraham Accords shifted from normalization of ties to "expansion"

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