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I would love the opportunity.
As it stands, all I've been presented are sanctimonious personal opinions about what does and does not constitute a global superpower, or a material economic advantage, or legitimate interference.
I've witnessed a concerted effort to deviate a statement about technological economic development to your own irrelevant and well-rehearsed goalposts, as well as the curious paradoxical assertion that the USSR was simultaneously fundamentally incompetent and masterfully capable of matching the first true industrial superpower in the height of its global influence.
You're not debating an idea, you're trying to steer the conversation toward a comfortable script, and frankly I'm not interested.