• protist@mander.xyz
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    1 month ago

    So where in what you posted did the IMF seize a Sri Lankan port to finance a debt

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      1 month ago

      You mean when a Canadian company recommended that Sri Lanka should sell hambatotan as part of debt renegotiations, that was more significant than the IMF impoverishing the entire country? Did you think they took the port back to China? While China is responsible for 10% of the debt and 63% of the debt forgiveness in the country?

      Do you do anything other than repeat Wall Street news? Vulture funds made huge risky investments to Sri Lanka they knew could not be repaid and used the international law system - the US run mafia - to threaten them into paying off debts that should have been forgiven.

      Taking more control over assets in countries being stripped by the Western vulture capitalists is a good thing. That’s why China has lots of under the table agreements to recoup losses on or take control of assets if the IMF does this shit or if there’s a regime change now. Risk is a real thing, debts are not sacred, I understand that’s out of your depth as your understanding of finance is limited to what your masters tell you.

      The alternative is simply threatening people to pay up, the Wall Street way.