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[โ€“] jaybone@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Fair enough. How many resources did the US waste in Vietnam and Korea fighting someone who was not a so called superpower?

Quite a lot. The US did the same thing in Iraq and Afghanistan too. Who cares about who the enemy is or how many people die if they military industrial complex is making bank?

A country doesn't need to be a superpower to project some power, but very few rise to the level of global hegemony. I think China is probably in the superpower tier today. The belt and road initiative is classic economic hegemony shit.