If that was the case, the USSR wouldn't have collapsed in upon itself. Because in all honesty, they had even more resources than the USA has access to. And they collapsed upon themselves. It's not just the resources you have access too, but the people themselves. We've talked about this on the t2k boards, and the fact that the Soviets had so many generations of being forced to conform, to keep their heads down because of the communist system had been ingraned into the people. But as we're seeing now in Russia they are starting to come out of that. and their economy and society is started to blossom and bloom.
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Fuck being a hero. Do you know what you get for being a hero? Nothing! You get shot at. You get a little pat on the back, blah blah blah, attaboy! You get divorced... Your wife can't remember your last name, your kids don't want to talk to you... You get to eat a lot of meals by yourself. Trust me kid, nobody wants to be that guy. I do this because there is nobody else to do it right now. Believe me if there was somebody else to do it, I would let them do it. There's not, so I'm doing it.
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