nuke@sh.itjust.worksM to NonCredibleDefense@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 3 months agoThe Myth of the Russian Superpowersh.itjust.worksexternal-linkmessage-square44fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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minus-squarerc__buggy@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 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-squarePossibly linux@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-23 months agoThe USSR always had serious issues. They just buried it and heavily restricted civil liberties.
minus-squarerc__buggy@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoYes, but they engaged in world politics as a superpower
minus-squaresaltesc@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoAnd that circles back to my original point.
minus-squareTar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoI mean, don’t look at any other superpowers you might know…
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.
The USSR always had serious issues. They just buried it and heavily restricted civil liberties.
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?