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Re:ICBMs Still Matter by alecmg on Monday July 06, 2020 @11:04AM (#23748676)
ok I'll bite. How many tens (of millions)? Can any country purge ten million own citizens to improve their global reach? Is it like a warcraft movie spell?
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Re:ICBMs Still Matter by Agathos on Monday July 06, 2020 @12:11PM (#23749348)
I think djohnston's point was that China's global reach started expanding after they stopped killing tens of millions of their own citizens, which was around the time Mao died.
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Re:ICBMs Still Matter by victoro0 on Monday July 06, 2020 @01:17PM (#23750080)
Well the USSR used over 30 million people as slave labor in their gulags, which were mostly involved in construction works and natural resources extraction.

That can certainly advance things.

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Re:ICBMs Still Matter by steffan on Monday July 06, 2020 @09:30PM (#23754673)
> ...too busy purging tens of millions of their own citizens to develop the global reach...

I think you misread 'to' in this sentence to mean 'in order to'. The intent by the parent comment was 'too busy...instead of develop[ing] the global reach'

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