• Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml
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    6 hours ago

    One has military bases on every inhabited land mass on earth, the other does not, your local concerns do not make them even remotely comparable

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      Just because russia is a failing economy, and no longer has bases all over the world, that does not mean that it’s no longer imperialist country.

      Authoritarian pseudo communism ruined soviet union, an then thanks to Jelcyn, neoliberalizm killed what was left.

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          Remember times, when soviet empire had bases from Kuba to Korea, a lot of bases in Europe, and stuff going on in the middle east and Africa?

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            Deployment =/= occupation, citing Cuba is especially laughable seeing as how they explicitly invited the Soviets specifically to counter the threat of the US, and it worked