• @MariaRomanov
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    321 year ago

    Russia has been a third world nation since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Politicians just like to use the Russian boogeyman to scare people who remember the Cold War. Putin may be a monster, but China is the real threat.

      • @MariaRomanov
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        11 year ago

        Russia is certainly a regional threat but countries invade and dominate other countries in their sphere of influence all the time. Russia does not have what it takes to dominate on a world stage like they did after World War 2. Their economy is weak, as is their military.

      • @utkonos@lemmygrad.ml
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        1 year ago

        Do Abkhazians and Ossetians really count themselves stolen Georgian citizens? Do they really count their land as Georgian land stolen by Russians? Your post is ridiculous.

    • mommykink
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      51 year ago

      I understand your sentiment but as a history major I need to clarify that Russia is literally the Second World Nation. As in, the First, Second, and Third categorization emerged to describe pro-NATO, pro-Warsaw Pact, and unaligned countries.

      • sadreality
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        91 year ago

        Business was good, fake news was doing daddies’ biddings while jobs were being shipped out.

      • @MariaRomanov
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        11 year ago

        Both the US and China have legitimate security interests that are at odds with each other.

    • @IDriveWhileTired@lemmy.world
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      Sorry, but the real threat to what exactly?

      Edited: aside from Taiwan, Hong Kong, several other nations in the east. My question was more in the context of China as a threat to anything in the western hemisphere. They are the eastern version of the US, no doubt about it.

      • @MariaRomanov
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        11 year ago

        The US status as a hegemony.

        With India on the rise as well I think we are transitioning into a pre-WW1 like multipolar balance of power which could slide into WW3. Safest option would be China and the US dominate everyone else and we get another Cold War, but we will see.

          • @MariaRomanov
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            21 year ago

            It’s all about money and power, mate. Not race. The US and the Soviet Union are both predominately Caucasian and they were at odds for the better part of the 20th Century. Race has nothing to do with it.

              • @MariaRomanov
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                21 year ago

                What are you on about? You didn’t address my counter-point. You merely restated this blatant propaganda.

                  • @MariaRomanov
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                    21 year ago

                    You still aren’t addressing my point. “Buddy” here is an attempt to bring me down a peg. You are using logical fallacies.