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Was just watching Jack Ryan Season 3 and seeing the display of force and their movements causes some interesting dissonance given what we know now.

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[-] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

In its heyday under Peter / Catherine the Great, depending on who you ask, Russia was a true world superpower. Richest royals, biggest population, massive food supply.

In the 50s and 60s, if the nuclear deterrent hadn't existed they could have taken over most of Europe through a combination of capture of democracy and invasion.

Even after than, Russian hard-science education was extremely good (biology they got screwed by ideology).

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