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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
It's not clear to me that we did anything that made much difference in the demise of the Soviet Union, but it is important (hi Iraq!) to pretend that we exercise more control over events in foreign countries than we really do. Arguably our military build-up was forcing them to try to keep up, but this seems like a half-assed way to claim victory, since those arms were sold to us at the time as the necessary response to a Soviet build-up. And if you believe everything Reagan said about the economy, ours would presumably have grown even faster had we cut taxes more instead of spending that money on the military, letting us pull away from the Soviets even sooner.
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umm. our economy didn't need to "pull away" from their's. We were always way ahead. or, do you remember bread lines from childhood?
I believe some of the main Soviet leaders (Gorby maybe) said it was the arms race that eventually beat them down, but maybe you can find a blog to say otherwise.
