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It's the other way around, all communist states were pretty much military states as it suits best the command style economy (How else would you make it work any
by realusername 2y ago
It's the other way around, all communist states were pretty much military states as it suits best the command style economy (How else would you make it work anyways?).
Then starting from that, what the military does best is producing weapons.
- cempaka 2y agoThe United States was always ahead of the Soviet Union in military spending and escalating the arms race. We even have documented statements from Western architects who said the purpose was to bankrupt the Soviets.
- realusername 2y agoNo, the Soviet Union was spending 20% of its GDP on the military. The US, at the height of the cold war was spending 6%. That's the only country which wasn't at war which was proportionally spending that much on the military. The Soviet Union was a military state disguised as a country, pretty much nothing outside the military really mattered there. It's even visible on the inside organisation of the Soviet Union itself (which they picked themselves, nobody asked them), which is pretty much the same as in any army, just at a country level. Sure, the US exploited that flaw but it's been there by design.
- cempaka 2y agoUnfortunately one can't go to war with percentages of GDP.
- realusername 2y agoConsidering the only use they had of their tanks was to invade their own members, I'm not sure that's the biggest argument in their favor.
- s1artibartfast 2y agoWhat does that mean and how is it relevant?
- andypalmer98723 2y agoThe US was ahead because it had more efficient economic system.