nuke@sh.itjust.worksM to NonCredibleDefense@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 28 days agoThe Myth of the Russian Superpowersh.itjust.worksexternal-linkmessage-square44fedilinkarrow-up1822arrow-down17
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minus-squarerc__buggy@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up43·28 days agoOh, they were a superpower as the USSR. Propping up friendly governments, supplying coups, ratfucking around where more blatant impositions wouldn’t be tolerated. It was just built on a house of cards and when it imploded it imploded big.
minus-squarerc__buggy@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·28 days agoYes, but they engaged in world politics as a superpower
minus-squaresaltesc@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·27 days agoAnd that circles back to my original point.
minus-squareTar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down2·28 days agoI mean, don’t look at any other superpowers you might know…
minus-squarerc__buggy@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-221 days agoUkraine was a powerhouse of the USSR, wasn’t it? I think that’s why they got so much nuke power, they produced so much food
Oh, they were a superpower as the USSR. Propping up friendly governments, supplying coups, ratfucking around where more blatant impositions wouldn’t be tolerated. It was just built on a house of cards and when it imploded it imploded big.
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Yes, but they engaged in world politics as a superpower
And that circles back to my original point.
I mean, don’t look at any other superpowers you might know…
Like when Ukraine was an SSR?
Ukraine was a powerhouse of the USSR, wasn’t it? I think that’s why they got so much nuke power, they produced so much food