This is Brendal's brain on drugs:
>Under the assumption that the Soviet Union could not then outspend the
>US
>government in a renewed arms race, Reagan strove to make the Cold War
>economically and rhetorically hot.
>
>Many analysts argue that the eventual collapse of the Soviet Union was
>due more
>to the re-emergence of separatist movements under glasnost, an
>inherent
>weakness in communist economic theory, and the depressed global price
>of crude
>oil,
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The collapse of the USSR was forecast by the CIA during the Nixon
administration. It's one of the reasons Jimmy Carter canceled the B1
bomber and cut defense spending. He knew guns wouldn't bring down the
USSR, they were choking to death on their own economy.
Swill
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Gobama! Gobama! Gobama! Gobama!
