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Originally Posted by wee 162
While using totalitarian client states all round the world? Is that really democratic?
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let's not discuss realpolitik again dude.
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Strange fact, most of the governments overthrown and countries invaded by the US during the Cold War were democratic. Most of the countries which came under the Soviet sphere of influence after the 2nd WW were dictatorships.
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i'd question that, if i could be ersed. but even if it so; so what? there is no merit in replacing one dictatorship with another. if hitler had conquered russia for example, that would hardly have been progress.
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So I think you're wrong on that point. Second point is close to being right though. The Cold War was won through economics.
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indeed. but now the west faces capitalist economices harnessed to a totalirtarian model in china, and - if an islamic bloc was ever created - a player in control of the most important asset to capitalism - oil - and a fighting force that doesnae gie a feck man...well, without nukes, tea would be oot.