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If we're talking about the US over the last 75 years, let's talk about Russia over the last 75 years. That means things like Hungary 1956 and Czechoslovakia 1968.

As for China, the rub on them isn't how they treat their allies. It's how they treat their own citizens. Between famines and Red Terror purges, China is not the model I want.

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Yes, but I wasn't talking about the US over the last 75 years. I was responding in particular to this:

"But at the same time everyone knows if they had work with one ally it'd be the US because they're less terrible than everyone else."

Looking at the next 75years, China and Russia do seem like more reasonable allies for a number of states. Most of the world has observed that if they don't have their own nuclear weapons, they are liable to be the next libya/iraq/afghanistan.. wait the list goes on:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_armed_conflicts_involv...

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