@not_a_newtSo the argument goes that once the fighting stops, the cash spigot shuts off and what's left is a country with no future to wake up to. Most people already gone. Infrastructure in pieces. Billions owed. The whole thing implodes, and whoever ends up leading it is set up to fail. Which is exactly why the war continuing suits the elites just fine: it's how they survive.

@not_a_newtSo the argument goes that once the fighting stops, the cash spigot shuts off and what's left is a country with no future to wake up to. Most people already gone. Infrastructure in pieces. Billions owed. The whole thing implodes, and whoever ends up leading it is set up to fail. Which is exactly why the war continuing suits the elites just fine: it's how they survive.