lickenforyou
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ORIGINAL: lickenforyou Many predicted the fall of the Soviet Union before 1980. So, it couldn't have had much to do with "Star Wars." Aren't you the same guy who's been going on about how rational you are on another thread? K. Are you saying many didn't predict the fall of the Soviet Union before 1980? And, let go of our last discussion and we'll start a new one. To be fair to him, Reagan's escalation of the "who can piss the highest?" contests that previous Presidencies had set in motion during his term in office probably sped up the collapse at least a little, despite the Soviet Union being pretty boracic already. Of course, he pretty thoroughly nobbled your own economy in the process as well... There were a lot of contributing factors to the fall of the Soviet Union. The cost of grain and food imports, skyrocketing oil prices, over borrowing, internal corruption, glasnost before perestroika had a chance to work, the cost in life and treasure in the nine year Afghan war, and yes the arms build up, and, and, and, so forth, and, etc....
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