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@MCMLXVIIOTG @Dudebro @Bunsen @TrevorGoodchild @Paultron @Hoss What could have been.
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Sometimes I think the world would've been better if the USSR didn't fall apart. Not because there's anything about the Soviets and their retardedly broken civilization to romanticize, but because the patriotic American exceptionalism of yesteryear worked because we had a culturally unifying rival in the Soviet Union.
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It's not the same.
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@Hoss @Griffith @Dudebro @MCMLXVIIOTG @Bunsen @TrevorGoodchild @Paultron >China has joined the chat
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I mean...I actually don't entirely disagree with that.
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@Hoss @Griffith @MCMLXVIIOTG @Dudebro @Bunsen @TrevorGoodchild @Paultron sometimes i think the world would've been better if the ottoman empire didn't fall apart. not because there's anything about the turks and their retardedly broken civilization to romanticize, but because the palestinian mandate wouldn't have been created by the bongs and israel wouldn't exist today
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I don't even think it's really that, it's not the same because the world isn't split into communist/capitalist and east/west spheres in the same way it was during the Cold War. There aren't two separate worlds, there's a geopolitical adversary dynamic to China and the West, sure, but our economies are intertwined in a manner that the West and the Warsaw Pact very much weren't during the height of the Cold War.
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Europeans dont see asians as human and will never unify against them. The Mongolid mixed Eastern Europeans on the other hand seemed like an existential threat.
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@Fagman2000 @Dudebro @MCMLXVIIOTG @Bunsen @TrevorGoodchild @Paultron @Hoss That’s probably true, but even that is different. Iran could feasibly kill the petrodollar. They can’t inherit the petrodollar. If American power breaks and falls apart, it’ll be a world of many pieces.
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@Hoss @Dudebro @Griffith @MCMLXVIIOTG @Bunsen @TrevorGoodchild @Paultron that may have been true for the last 30 years, but with this shit happening in the middle east BRICS might split the world again by destroying the petrol dollar.
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@Griffith @Dudebro @MCMLXVIIOTG @Bunsen @TrevorGoodchild @Paultron @Hoss 🤷 could split, could shatter. who's to say
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@Fagman2000 @Dudebro @MCMLXVIIOTG @Bunsen @TrevorGoodchild @Paultron @Hoss It won’t split, that’s all I’ll say.