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Re:Global rice shortage is set to be the biggest in 20 years by phpnode on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @11:40AM (#35629570)
Your biggest adversary, one that's cast a dark shadow over your country and it's allies, one that's consumed trillions of dollars of defence spending over the last 75 years, is now being ground down and exhausted with approximately zero of your countrymen's lives at risk and all for a mere few billion dollars. You're getting a bargain.
Re:Global rice shortage is set to be the biggest in 20 years by Retric on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @12:15PM (#35630007)
The USSR was a major adversary for roughly 45 years, 1946 to 1991. The US provided them major economic aid in WWII which they leveraged into a massive expansion and had minimal interaction before the war.

Russia is a politically distinct fragment of that empire, just like Ukraine.

Re:Global rice shortage is set to be the biggest in 20 years by selimthegrim on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @01:14PM (#35630712)
Indeed “glavniy protivnik/glavniy vrag” is what USSR used to call USA!
Re:Global rice shortage is set to be the biggest in 20 years by thriftwy on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @05:52PM (#35633773)
Nope. It wasn't. It was the most likely adversary. Вероятный.
Re:Global rice shortage is set to be the biggest in 20 years by selimthegrim on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @10:42PM (#35635730)
Ok “probable adversary” I stand corrected. I thought that one was a joke.