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Jacob Parakilas
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RAND Europe defenc/se strategy and policy guy. Dad joker, aircraft/car/ship/armored vehicle nerd, recovering civil servant. Lewiston to London via Lagos.
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Yes exactly. What they don't realize is that when you mortgage a country's governance it does actually start impacting you no matter how much money you have. We lived in Nigeria for a while, and because my wife's job was an expat contract we lived in literally the Park Lane of Lagos monopoly...

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... And we lost power multiple times a day, you had to watch your kids in the bath like a hawk because the bath water would make them sick if they swallowed some, and the roads outside turned into rivers when it rained, and were horrifically congested even in good weather.

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Jacob Parakilas
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RAND Europe defenc/se strategy and policy guy. Dad joker, aircraft/car/ship/armored vehicle nerd, recovering civil servant. Lewiston to London via Lagos.
55 followers106 following196 posts