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>The cost wasn't actually that great
It wasn't a perfect analogy for a "Phyrric victory".
>people just wanted to eat McDonald's and wear blue jeans
It hurts me knowing that Russia could have replicated the (comparative, especially for the 90s) success of Poland with an IMF loan of a few hundred million dollars aimed at providing liquidity in a post-soviet economy. But Washiniggers were like "nah, they 'lost' so fuck 'em".
A geopolitical blunder of immense proportions based on hubris and retardation that, if averted, would have changed the course of history by tying Russia much closer to the West as opposed to the East.
I truly have no words and the knowledge of how easy (on a political/diplomatic scale) the "Wild 90s" would have been for USA to fix fills me with a deep resentment.