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Originally Posted by peter12
The guy, in part, sped up the collapse of the USSR because of his tough and uncompromising stance against Gorbachev and the Soviets.
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The mythical Ronald Reagan. Gotta love how he gets the credit for the fall of the Soviet Union, something that was started 40 years prior, and contributed to by each and every diplomat and policy maker since WWII. Reagan only did one thing right, and that was spend money like a drunken sailor, forcing the Russians to attempt to keep up. Beyod that, Reagan really was in the right place at the right time and was able to take credit of the work of many others. Frankly, the Soviet Union was on their last legs when they went into Afghanistan. They we finally bled dry during that engagement and went home without a penny in their pockets.
Ironically, the United States is facing the same type of problems that the Soviets faced. The military is in disarray, the debt load has increased to incredible numbers, and the dispartity between the working class and the elites has never been greater. What works in the United States favor is it has an incredible economic engine that could possibly comeback to life with the right push here and there. I doubt you'll see the Uited States fail, and disintegrate like the USSR, but the parallels are interesting to observe. It seems that the "mujahideen" learned their lessons well.