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[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Surely the Ukranian people had much control on the decisions made by the puppet goverment after the 2014 coup 😂 surely the Ukranian people must've enjoyed the increase in military budget, that surely increased their living standards https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/MS.MIL.XPND.ZS?end=2022&locations=UA&name_desc=true&start=1992&view=chart

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

They didn’t, and stop calling me Shirley.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

What? A country increases its military spending after a part of the country gets annexed by Russia‽ Who could have guessed.