• Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    The USSR had a huge number of nukes, tanks, planes, and other warfighting equipment and they weren’t capitalist.

    China also has a huge army and the biggest navy in the world by hull count. Also not capitalist.

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      4 hours ago

      That’s an interesting observation, whether or not USSR and/or China is/was capitalist, and in what ways, is a rich topic of discussion. There are a ton of different theories about them, and I’m familiar with a few.

      Why do you think USSR and China still had militaries? Was it to make imperialist war, or to defend against it? There’s an abundance of different views on the topic that are much more scientifically and historically honest than “its just human nature.”

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        3 hours ago

        So any country that does bad things is capitalist and the worse the things the more capitalister it is.

        And they are absolutely for imperialism more than defense.