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If Putin had been a good guy, what would have he done for Russia instead? (fedia.io)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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With all the money going into the Ukraine war and other ventures since Putin came to power, I imagine there's a lot of stuff he could've done to make the world a better place and Russia a formidable world power.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

The smartest thing any leader could do at this point is educate the next generation.

He could have opened a lot of colleges and invited scholars from all over the world to come and learn for free.

Push the US, Europe and China to invest in asteroid mining and space colonization.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Russia has the highest rate of college attainment in the world, free college is one of the few legacies of the USSR that didn't get privatized and destroyed during liberalization.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Now about those space colonies...

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The Soviet space program only got mostly privatized and destroyed. It's not easy to run a space program when your entire industrial base just had the copper stripped out of the walls.

It's actually a major accomplishment that they were able to contribute modules to the ISS in the 2000s.