• @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

    • @masquenox@lemmy.world
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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.