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Using your comparison, look where the Soviets are now...

• varispeed 6y ago
  Chinese are definitely much smarter. It was just an example what a power can do to achieve their goals.
  • adriancr 6y ago
    Both sides have considerable power. Keep in mind that the Chinese benefited from a US policy designed to help due to US interest in sidelining the USSR. That help is gradually being replaced with the hostility reserved before for the USSR. So, while China may have power to attract people* the US can do a lot more to limit/sideline China. *doubtful though as people will need to live under a dictatorship. This is ignoring what damage a bad/incompetent leader can do to China, one like Stalin since Xi is essentially removing all checks and limits of power.
• rasz 6y ago
  in Crimea, organizing counter BML protests, funding parler, paying off high elected US officials, sending people to space station, building second Nord Stream line to Germany, the list goes on and on. Russia didnt go away just because USSR fell.
  • adriancr 6y ago
    I meant for all their 'investments' in smart people, where is their technology, also where are those people now that they can actually leave the country? I am aware Russia is still around and needs to be dealt with... I grew up in a communist country and have a deep dislike for Russia to put it mildly