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[deleted] t1_je0mo80 wrote

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brinz1 t1_je0rxmm wrote

That's about 3% of their government's budget.

It's a sweetener for US diplomacy, but it's not leverage

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yyzbored t1_je1n8vp wrote

1000 billion = 1 trillion

1.5 billion is 0.3% of the budget, not 3%

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brinz1 t1_je1ptqe wrote

I misread the numbers, but that's an even bigger ratio that supports what I said

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Amn-El-Dawla t1_je1xdr4 wrote

I lost whatever braincells I had left, when I read this uneducated comment.

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