the liberal ideal: be thoroughly uninformed but very confident in your opinions
The United States was monumentally more powerful then the Soviet Union throughout its history. The US economy, industrial base, scientific base, military, financial markets, trade, and so on, dwarfed the Soviet Union to an almost comical degree. Couple that with the setback the Union faced with WW2, and US was clearly the dominant player.
Despite that, the Union still managed to overtake several times and compete head to head with the global hegemon and their imperial puppets. If the US could falter that much of a lead and feel “antagonized”, then that shows the true nature of capital.
The US economy, industrial base, scientific base, military, financial markets, trade, and so on
Deng Xiaoping in 1980: “I’m about to wreck this man’s entire career”
Soviet Union goes down
OH MY GOD, ITS CHINA FROM THE TOP RUNG WITH THE STEEL CHAIR!
Real life NATO horror movies be like
“global” = west
Hey now, they also antagonized the West’s Global South cronies like Pakistan.
It must suck getting your navy, ports, and air force blown to smithereens by Soviet missiles after committing a 2-3 million person genocide in Bangladesh.
And when Russia did stopped “being like this” in 90s, it accomplished every objective, right?
Every objective of USA naturally.
