> Russia and China industrialized within one generation. No nations ever developed faster or more, an economic miracle pointedly ignored by most western economi

> Russia and China industrialized within one generation. No nations ever developed faster or more, an economic miracle pointedly ignored by most western economists because communism bad, STFU. Yeah, nope. They industrialized when the west already had. There's a massive difference between developing stuff and then deploying it and outright deploying it. Compare that, e.g., to imperial Germany vs. England and you see the difference.