• Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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    11 hours ago

    I’m not sure how you can understand that the Nordics act like investment bankers, without acknowledging that this means the Nordics essentially fund their safety nets off of unequal exchange and exploitation of the Global South. It isn’t about influence, it’s about parasitism.

    • lime!@feddit.nu
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      11 hours ago

      i am open to it but i’ve yet to see the numbers. so far it’s been generalisations covering the entire northern hemisphere and semi-related articles. and i’m not really convinced of aljazeera’s objectivity since they uncritically ran an article claiming the swedish state kidnaps children.

      fact is, i know where my tax money goes. our budgets are all public. those are the numbers i’ve seen.