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by V_Terranova_Jr
1335 days ago
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Cold war Russia and today's Russia are two different beasts. Also, Russia's strategy of deliberate large-scale brutality against civilians to win military conflicts still motivates the drive to nullify their military capabilities as quickly as possible. |
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The Soviet Union had vast excess capacity to scale its army, build more armaments, etc. All of that went away as unaffordable when the Union collapsed.