Re:Chile to Nationalize Lithium Industry
by nickpp on Monday May 08, 2023 @11:28AM
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Nope. It was rather to prevent them falling into the hands of the Russian Empire who was already shipping arms, financing leftist parties and infiltrating universities. You know, the classic KGB playbook.
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The Russian Empire didn't exist in the 1960s, so I really don't see any credibility in your comment.
If you call the US and it’s global influence an empire, then in the 60’s Russia also had an empire. A far more direct one, in fact, as they were occupying Eastern European countries like Ukraine, Estonia, and so many others.
I do call the US "an empire", but I don't refer to "The American Empire" in a discussion of geopolitics. It reeks of bias. The GP wrote "Russian Empire", capitalized, which is the name of a polity that didn't exist in the late 20th century. (And then they later edited their comment to say "(aka the USSR)" to make me look overly pedantic.)