I think the problem here is you are equating buying sex with buying the woman. You wouldn’t say that paying a chef to make food is buying the chef as an object.

So wait, is slavery legal in the Netherlands? Like, were prostitution laws the only ones stopping slavery?

Its because of how dictatorial communist countries work. Money is just a means of exchange. They have no internal exchanges and no need of money.

Kind of our fault for overthrowing their democracy to put in a dictator. I mean, would it kill us to at least apologize for that?

yes...deployed to prevent the Islamic state from overthrowing their ally. I mean, its kind of a bad comparison because we are ALSO in that country fighting Islamic State.