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I'm not saying that governments will necessarily take issue.

I'm just saying that that has to also get past publics and their representatives in legislatures.

I'm not saying that it's impossible to do -- people have called this a "Marshall Plan 2.0", and the original was -- ultimately, though not as initially presented -- both done and overwhelmingly grants. But my point is that if Russia isn't actively-invading a country in Europe, I think that it's gonna be harder to get the political momentum for funds than if Russia is doing so.

And we're not talking pocket change -- it's hundreds of billions. Russia's frozen funds are already in the hundreds-of-billions, so that's a significant chunk of that covered already.

I'd rather have the more-difficult-to-raise-money-for things have the easier-to-get money aimed at them.

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