nukeM to NonCredibleDefenseEnglish · 2 months agoThe Myth of the Russian Superpowerimagemessage-square43fedilinkarrow-up1837arrow-down17
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minus-squarerc__buggylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up43·2 months 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__buggylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·2 months agoYes, but they engaged in world politics as a superpower
minus-squaresaltesc@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoAnd that circles back to my original point.
minus-squareTar_AlcaranlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down2·2 months agoI mean, don’t look at any other superpowers you might know…
minus-squarerc__buggylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-22 months 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