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>If the US was the only country with nuclear weapons, it would have nuked the USSR, China, and a dozen other countries by now.

Have any backup for this? The primary way the US gets countries to do what the US wants is to throw unholy gobs of money at them.

>But today, it no longer has that advantage, and it's a dying empire, which in 1947 clearly it wasn't.

You think the US is a dying empire, or Russia? If it's the US, whatever you are reading isn't based in reality. Name a peer.