Imagine you're playing a game of Monopoly, but you come in to it with half the normal amount of money, after the game has already gone on for half an hour.
Doesn't this apply to both the US and socialist countries?
I guess I'm also not very clear what people mean when they say socialist country. Capitalist with good regulations? No money? Government owned businesses?
TIL the merit of a broad socioeconomic system is dependent upon if nations that adopt it can militarily defeat the 3rd largest country and government that has hundreds of years of industry and exploitating various groups of people beforehand
And those like you wonder why the surviving socialist countries were authoritarian and highly militarized...