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		valcron1000 40 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strik... If international law had any effect people would believe in it. You're mixing cause/effect. This situation has been going on for years and the lack of response by international organizations makes people lose all confidence in them.

jacquesm 39 days ago [–]

It's the same with money: if people believe in it it works, if they stop believing in it it stops working.

So there is no cause and no effect, it is something mutually reinforcing.

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