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2021-06-06 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

United States follows Soviet Union’s path — Putin

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Posted by badanov 2021-06-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

Posted by Clem 2021-06-06 01:02|| 2021-06-06 01:02|| Front Page Top

#2 He's, um, right.

Substitute identity for class, black for proletariat, Woke for scientific socialism and the parallel is obvious.

USA is slouching into USSA.

Posted by Large Spenter2584 2021-06-06 01:04|| 2021-06-06 01:04|| Front Page Top

#3 Athenian empire.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-06-06 01:35|| 2021-06-06 01:35|| Front Page Top

#4 Roman republic after the Punic wars with Carthage. The republic's institutions were not designed to handle deal with the world they had acquired. We had demobilized after 1945, but the Berlin Crisis caused the ruling class in Washington to become the world's policeman for which the Constitution was never designed nor intended to support. The long term consequences of centralization and concentration of power are the corruptions that destroyed the old republic.

Posted by Procopius2k 2021-06-06 06:25|| 2021-06-06 06:25|| Front Page Top

#5 Shades of Paul Kennedy

Posted by York Harding 2021-06-06 12:15|| 2021-06-06 12:15|| Front Page Top

#6 Soviet Union or, dare I say it, Nazi Germany...

Posted by CrazyFool 2021-06-06 12:23|| 2021-06-06 12:23|| Front Page Top

#7 Well, he ought to recognize the signs.

Posted by ed in texas 2021-06-06 17:09|| 2021-06-06 17:09|| Front Page Top

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