• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 days ago

    I concur, they’re the nearest/closest parallel.

    History books in the future:

    Yeah there was a Cold War, they both lost and then disintegrated/degenerated, it just took the US a few more decades.

    Astonishingly corrupt kleptocracies/oligarchies, degenerate federal democracies that decayed into basically jingoistic/nationalist/supremacist fascism, full of anti-intellectual conspiracy theorists / religious extremists, plauged by deaths of despair, crime is legal if you’re wealthy or well-connected enough, massive prison/slave labor system, police/surveillance state, irredentist attempts at re-assetting their former glory through military violence and psyops, etc.