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Export-Import Bank Loans (One Billion Dollars)
Toby and Josh hurl these loans like barbed wire across the Mural Room table: one billion dollars funneled from the Export-Import Bank, no papers rustle, just words slicing air—tied to AIDS drug buys, they dangle as blood price for Nimbala's troops sealing borders. Humiliation cracks his facade; the sum looms intangible yet crushing, quantifying U.S. muscle in raw fiscal terms.
2 appearances
Purpose
Finance the purchase of American AIDS medication as incentive for security commitments.
Significance
Powers the ultimatum's coercive core, yanking negotiation from cold barter to raw moral fracture—Nimbala's humiliated concession spotlights their power to demand immediate, humiliating compliance.
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