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 (DIR) Post #Aud7LOb8pRVTTasVSC by johnquiggin@aus.social
       2025-05-30T10:03:50Z
       
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       This article accepts a framing in which #Russia counts as a great power comparable to US and China. On any criterion other than possession of a huge stockpile of nuclear weapons, that's nonsense. Russia has a far smaller population and economy than China, US, EU, or the B+I+S bit of BRICS.
       
 (DIR) Post #Aud7LYT08YwA5F999c by johnquiggin@aus.social
       2025-05-30T10:03:56Z
       
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       The stocks of conventional arms (tanks, artillery, etc) inherited from the Soviet Union has been dissipated in a futile and bloody attempt to reassert the claim that Ukraine is part of the Russian sphere of influence. https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/05/28/spheres-of-influence-great-powers/?