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If Austria is really financing the war, then only if Russia used that money to buy war stuff from elsewhere
Does not compute. Money from Europe helps financing the war even if it’s domestic production. Money is fungible, you can’t say this specific euro or ruble is not used for weapons and therefore it’s ok to pay them. Western business helps prop up ruble exchange rate which limits inflation and domestic discontent, which allows Putin to spend more on domestic weapon production.
Am Ende bezahlt man sowieso mehr wegen hohen Zinsen.
Ezra Klein show - it’s actually a podcast about US politics which I don’t really care about, but they have often very interesting guests and Ezra is a very good interviewer / generally intelligent person with interesting takes.
Lex Fridman - originally about AI, nowadays various intellectual topics with high profile guests. I actually don’t really like Lex himself, but fortunately he doesn’t speak often.
A bunch of podcasts on Ukraine/Russia - War on the Rocks, The Russia contingency (paid), In Moscow’s shadows (Kremlinology). Geopolitics Decanted.