• @avrachan
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    -611 months ago

    US invincibility was proved when they won the Vietnam War.

    • @crispy_kilt@feddit.de
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      411 months ago

      Defending and attacking are two different things. I meant the US cannot be defeated by an attacker.

      • @avrachan
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        11 months ago

        then Russia makes a better example of a invincible empire.

        Sweden, France, Germany have all tried at their peak strength to conquer Russia and failed.

        USA with its geographical isolation has been lucky in that regard.

          • @WoefKat@lemmy.ml
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            11 months ago

            Yah a fully expendable population makes for unlimited cannon fodder :(

            Edit: Not saying Russians are expendable. Just saying that their previous dictatorships (and arguably the current!) considers them as such. I have nothing against Russians but I do against their governments.

            It’s mad to think this country has only had a democracy for a year or so in the 90s. Which began with the fall of the USSR and ended with Yeltsin’s coup.

            • @crispy_kilt@feddit.de
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              211 months ago

              Russians aren’t more expendable than any other human being. They’re just being treated as such by their fascist regime. I know it’s easy to start thinking badly of all of them because of the idiotic war, but they’re human beings too. The ones outside of the kremlin at least.

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                11 months ago

                Sorry, I didn’t mean Russians are expendable of course! (Hence the sad smiley). In fact I was lamenting the way the Soviet and Tsarist governments treated their population. Sorry if this wasn’t clear.

                And I’m sure 90% of Russian soldiers are not happy to fight this war either. I’m sure they’d prefer being home with wife & kids rather than dodging bullets.

          • @avrachan
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            -611 months ago

            do you have an example of Russian federation being defeated in an attack?

            • b3nsn0w
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              210 months ago

              do you have an example of the russian federation getting attacked by a near-peer adversary without the now defunct soviet union defending it?

              • @avrachan
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                -111 months ago

                yeah I had to use Google translate.

                still no examples