Chile to Nationalize Lithium Industry

Re:Chile to Nationalize Lithium Industry by FredPret on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @01:41AM (#35870590)

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.

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Re:Chile to Nationalize Lithium Industry by digging on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @08:32PM (#35882153)

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.)

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Re:Chile to Nationalize Lithium Industry by FredPret on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @02:26AM (#35884292)

But you are being overly pedantic. “USSR” is simply the name Russia gave to its empire.

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