They had a huge crisis of food, and many people died and nearly started a civil war, at which point there was a military coup,

Whats wrong with draining your neighbors?

Plus Russia refuses to bend the knee to the thalassocracy and thus is still largely separate from the world market

you know

i think i figured out part of the issue

I mean Russia is nice

Plus they are far from trade nodes which kida makes them structurally poor in this system anyway

https://www.reddit.com/r/ukpolitics/comments/cmp1y6/ww2_veteran_on_brexit_im_hearing_voices_which_wed/

as soon as communists were removed from power and bad actors disappeared, the economy began turning around fast, and is now the most advanced economy in south america.

so yeah, Russia poor

the threat of nukes prevents other countries from stepping in when the country goes to shit

Wdym draining your neighbours?

aka

even though north korea could normally be swept over by americans

and the difficulties in chile ONLY rise when a socialist-leaning president is elected.

or venezuela

or other countries

Keep consuming pornography.

china and russia wont approve of our grab for power

The SU imported coal from Silesia and cotton from Uzbekistan. Basically free of charge.

even if it benefits said countries

and many similar things

https://youtu.be/sVCT941jSXg <:ahegao:462286952335671296>

North Korea is more likely a proxi state to China

Coal and Cotton have little affect from quality of life, especially today.

the effects of socialism/communism in a real country

NK is a buffer between Beijng and the US forces in South Korea

@AydeMori☠ Taht is simply a stupid statement

I don;t know how else to put it

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency_of_Salvador_Allende>

Chinese don't want to share a border with a western power, as it would frighten the Chinese

You're doomed.

Having defectors or even a heavily militrized border would be costly. Instead china uses N Korea as an experiment while promoting tourism

Boris, starting WWIII by nuking Berlin.

@Tonight at 11 - DOOM Russia is one of the largest oil and natural gas exporter in the world. They provide 50% of all gas resources within the EU itself. I don’t think some coal imports from the soviet era would’ve affected their quality of life

@Weez a fine addition to my collection

@Weez doom is a racist phrase

@AydeMori☠ Then you are daft

**inb4 this is a live image that was posted 10 minutes ago and the nukes are coming to land on us in 3 minutes**