“Submarines labelled SSSR are on both coasts. The apparent flight paths of ICBMs are marked. Cuba’s soldiers and bases are indicated (…) If you can figure out more precisely what’s going on I’d certainly be curious, and I imagine that other readers would get a kick out of it.”...A look at the actual legend of the map does allow for some closer dating. Item #3 (the red vertical stripes) indicates the pro-soviet regimes in the hemisphere – Cuba and Nicaragua. The inclusion of that second country limits the timeframe of the map to 1979-1990, the era when the Sandinistas were in control of Nicaragua....Whereas blue indicates the US itself (Sjedinjene Americke Drzave, acronym SAD – but that is a coincidence, I presume), yellow indicates ’separatist’ forces at work in the North American continent, such as Quebec (although that is a Canadian, not a US issue) and Black Muslims (around Chicago) and Mexican-Americans (in Texas). Again, a pretty remarkable comment, coming from a Yugoslav atlas.___Source
Currently, the Russians are in no condition to invade anyone, except perhaps Chechnya, which is inside Russian borders anyway. It is a bit spooky to go back in time--not so very far--to when the pathetic country that calls itself Russia was called the USSR, and claimed superpower status.
Today, China occupies the niche of "would-be superpower with the intent to rule the world." The eventual fate of China may be even more cruel than the fate of Russia is turning out to be. Because China is destroying herself in the process of trying to achieve her ambitions. Russia, at least, mainly destroyed other countries to fill its ambitions. Still, China is likely to collapse of her own excesses in an even more spectacular fall than that which overcame the USSR.
The sad fate of brutal empires, to have to come into being at the time that the anti-empire of North America was reaching its peak.
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