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[–] 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months 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.

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