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If Socialism worked, the Socialist countries could punch the US.
TIL the merit of a broad socioeconomic system is dependent upon if nations that adopt it can militarily defeat the 3rd largest country and government that has hundreds of years of industry and exploitating various groups of people beforehand
And those like you wonder why the surviving socialist countries were authoritarian and highly militarized...