• @masquenox@lemmy.world
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      11 year ago

      That’s quite an imaginative perspective

      No, it isn’t. It doesn’t require imagination at all. If you want something that requires a crap-ton of imagination, go see the narratives the US has been spinning about the (so-called) “Cold War” - you have to be pretty high on “westernism” to buy any of it.

      • @orrk@lemmy.world
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        11 year ago

        it sort of does, after all pre WW2 there weren’t two massive “communist” states (let’s be honest they were as communist as Germany during WW2) that had a tendency to try and expand via military means

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          11 year ago

          The expansionism of the USSR and the PRC, while certainly extant, is still kindergarten stuff in comparison with even the earliest of the European colonialist empires - never mind the utterly psychotic control-fetish with nukes that is the US.