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tgv01/22/20251 replyview on HN

You mean: bribery and economic pressure? It surely isn't cultural power.


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rbanffy01/22/2025

It could start helping finance infrastructure projects, schools, hospitals, universities, and so on. Along that comes the opportunity to exercise cultural influence and develop consumers and suppliers for your own industry.

It’s far less nasty than invading, freeing the people from their government and installing a puppet in its place. Also a lot cheaper. Any missile could pay for a school.

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