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Time to do your thing, frenchies

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[–] freagle@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 1 month ago

The USSR was a hegemon back then. So it could engage in "symmetrical" proxy wars. This is a new situation, I think, where the USA, UK, and France able to act through far more proxies than either Russia or China can.