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When I look at other communist nations, they were invaded, couped, and/or sabotaged at every opportunity, and (forgive me, my history of China is weak) while I'm sure that China faced obstacles from capitalists outside of the country, it somehow rose up to be the power that it is today while the USSR fell, Vietnam and Korea got bombed to hell and back, Cuba was put under crippling sanctions, and surely countless other uprisings got squashed young.

But china didn't just survive, they thrived. How?

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 19 hours ago (7 children)

You say it's not nukes yet you start with things that were only possible because of nukes

[–] [email protected] 7 points 17 hours ago (5 children)

Whaaa? Blocking social media requires nukes? What's going on in Iran then?

Antagonizing USA requires nukes? What's happening in Venezuela?

Waiting out your opponent requires nukes? Well at this point I point to the entire planet waiting out USA's tariff plan.

Not sure where anything I said doesn't have an analogous example of a country doing exactly that and they do not have nukes. It's just no one does all at once which is as I said the real reason China is winning.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Whaaa? Blocking social media requires nukes? What's going on in Iran then?

Secret nukes.

Antagonizing USA requires nukes? What's happening in Venezuela?

Secret nukes.

Waiting out your opponent requires nukes? Well at this point I point to the entire planet waiting out USA's tariff plan.

Whole world's got nukes. Secret nukes.

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