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Re:Another undersea cable damaged in Baltic Sea by nradov on Sunday January 26, 2025 @04:53PM (#42834547)
No one is really going to invest (financially) in Ukraine while there's a shooting war going on. These Russian attacks on European infrastructure targets (including other means like arson) are more intended to discourage foreign aid and political support for Ukraine. Essentially Russia is signaling that they can make the conflict more expensive for everyone. Hopefully it won't work.
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Re:Another undersea cable damaged in Baltic Sea by worldsayshi on Sunday January 26, 2025 @05:03PM (#42834652)
Yeah, that's what I meant. Invest as in investing in Ukraine's ability to defend itself so that we don't need to invest as much on our own defence.

Investing in Ukraine's ability to deal with Russia is clearly the most economical way to deal with Russia for everyone else. Hence they want to distract us from that.

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Re:Another undersea cable damaged in Baltic Sea by ASalazarMX on Sunday January 26, 2025 @06:44PM (#42835547)
The right word is spend. Military spending is not an inversion, because the profits rarely go to the government, but to the private sector.
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Re:Another undersea cable damaged in Baltic Sea by worldsayshi on Monday January 27, 2025 @03:27AM (#42838733)
Invest - to put money, effort, time, etc. into something in order to improve it or get an advantage.

Spend - to give money as a payment for something.

Invest still sounds to me like the word I'm looking for.

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Re:Another undersea cable damaged in Baltic Sea by ASalazarMX on Monday January 27, 2025 @02:38PM (#42844786)
Yeah, in the way I can invest in a new GPU for my gaming computer.

Paying military subcontractors is not putting resources into improving the military, it's spending. Be it bombing a country for no profit (like Afghanistan), for resources (like Irak), or geopolitics gain (like Syria/Ukraine), it's an expense, not an inversion. The military will not get ROI from oil or geopolitics.

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Re:Another undersea cable damaged in Baltic Sea by Arnt on Monday January 27, 2025 @05:19PM (#42846395)
Those subcontractors build factories, which is investment.

https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/four-rheinmetall-plants-set-... for example.

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