• Shindo66@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    And so much has come out that Russia never really had the capabilities they said they had. They were just saying it so they could laugh as we poured all of our money into giant useless defense projects instead of social services and infrastructure. The result, $40 trillion in debt and no bullet trains. In a way, they kinda won the cold war.

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      2 hours ago

      I think you meant the USSR. They most certainly had a lot of destructive capability regardless of inflating their numbers.

      Most of US debt came long after the USSR was dissolved.

      Considering that Russia is attempting USSR 2.0, you may have a point about them winning in the long run.

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        1 hour ago

        Of course the ussr. Im definitely not saying they didnt have destructive capabilities, they just were never going to try to use them on the US or Europe. It sure seems that Russia is trying ussr 2 and the us is trying for the fourth reich