Posted on 08/07/2014 8:33:31 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Reagan went full bore with the arms race as soon as he came into office.
Remember the “Strategic Defense Initiative” which was referred to as “Star Wars”? It scared the hell out of the Russians. This was about the time that the IBM PC came out. We were crushing the Russians with huge technology leaps. It pushed the Russians over the edge economically.
I've been hearing that meme for decades. The Russians had an ABM system already. The were also investing in a blue water navy. That was the big demand for cash, particularly for upkeep. They paid for it with oil revenues, their only source of foreign exchange at the time. When the price of oil dropped, that revenue dried up.
BTW, other than China, name one enemy we face today that is not funded by oil revenues.
Some pretty decent real estate in New York City could go on the market--after the building is stripped of all the stray bugs.
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“That was GOOD!!! I’d never heard that story, thanks!”
Any time. I remember hearing a report on it when the book came out. That is how you fight an enemy. You don’t want to be anywhere near a 3 kiloton blast, it’s only a bit smaller than Hiroshima.
Here’s some more on it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberian_pipeline_sabotage
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1071087/posts
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