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by mrec 2581 days ago
No Latin American countries have nukes, and despite spending most of the 19th century beating the stuffing out of each other on a regular basis [1] there's been almost zero inter-state violence since WW2.

Modern Russia is also nowhere near the unstoppable conventional military juggernaut that the Cold War-era USSR was.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_conflicts_in_South_Ame...