Governments use debt leverage as a political tool: by maintaining debt obligations, creditor nations preserve leverage to extract non-transparent political and diplomatic concessions from debtor nations that they would lose if they forgave the debt.
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Ian BremmerEvidence Quote
“I as a government want you to continue to be indebted to me even if I know you can't pay it because I can then squeeze you for other perhaps non-transparent political outcomes diplomatic outcomes”
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Fix the global debt crisis before it's too late, warns World Bank's David Malpass— GZERO MediaCreated: 8/12/2026, 6:44:21 PM
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