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[–] [email protected] 96 points 1 year ago (1 children)

when Russia becomes the third world nation in a proxy war.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (6 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Russia literally invaded two countries and stole their land and people. Your post is ridiculous.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

China was considered a true partner of the West until 2008.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 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.