• Jack@slrpnk.net
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    9 hours ago

    Took credit for winning world wars* Decided it won the cold war*

    It always has been run by fascist slave owners. Welcome to the real world, where america is and always has been shit stain on the history of the world.

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      4 hours ago

      One could make a case for Putin winning the cold war by installing a puppet dictator in the USA. I mean he said he would, and he did. It’s pretty impressive, really. Not the stratagem in itself, it’s dumb as fuck, but he knew the Americans would be even dumber.

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      7 hours ago

      At least they tried to hide it, now they don’t.

      As for the cold war, if you consider the conflict USA-USSR they clearly won: Russia was, at least at some point, equally powerful to the USA technologically and militarly, what one did first, the other caught up pretty quickly, then the Soviet Government collapsed for various reasons, and they couldn’t catch up, now the USA is arguably the most technologically advanced country in the world, in many aspects.

      China is catching up, but they are in no way equally capable.

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      9 hours ago

      I don’t necessarily disagree - hence my adding “deserved or not”, if you re-read what I wrote.
      But regardless of what you think, it had that reputation.

      And it doesn’t no more.