Or predation -- Like the shadow dwelling blood suckers portrayed in {ehem} fiction...
Posted on 12/24/2016 7:58:23 AM PST by Leaning Right
As we look back tomorrow at the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Soviet Union, an important question should be raised: could the USSR actually have won the Cold War?
Or maybe a better question: at least survived?
That was something we asked Professor Tom Nichols of the U.S. Naval War College and Harvard University back in 2014.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalinterest.org ...
As I said. The Jesuits and others could get away with it because those other business and economic entities weren’t playing the guaranteed fail game.
Communism is parasitism. Same as socialism.
There’s always the special snowflake enclave that the simple and uncomprehending will point to and say “see! they’re doing it! Everyone should do it!” completely missing the fact that the only reason that special snowflake outfits is seeming to “do it” is because they’re kept afloat by everyone else who isn’t.
Or predation -- Like the shadow dwelling blood suckers portrayed in {ehem} fiction...
Lenin’s dad runs to the drugstore
>>Red China is based on the same lie, and it’s thriving.
https://www.google.com/#q=the+theory+and+practice+of+oligarchical+collectivism
It’s a model that seems to be symptomatic of human collective behavior... when not constrained by a framework of laws (AKA a Republic) having “TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS” as its declared purpose.
#TSTR-MAGA!
Soviet collapse ping.
Not really. The article makes a case that the Stalinist purges destroyed the generation of thinkers required to maintain the Soviet lie. The Afghanistan adventure was unaffordable, unwinnable, and they knew it.
The USSR’s incompetent, shuttered leadership brought it to a tipping point, an economic tipping point that Reagan pushed over, bringing about in internal collapse rather than an outward explosion.
IOW, Reagan was neccesary, but not sufficient.
Heh.
That’ll work.
I agree. Stalin got where he was *because* he was a ruthless, paranoid, murdering psychopath. He wouldn’t have abandoned what had worked so well for him.
>>they’re kept afloat by everyone else who isn’t.
Well, they are the brainworks of the farm after all.
It is for our benefit they eat all the apples and drink all the milk and whiskey!
“I must work harder”
—Boxer The Horse
Normies, as in NORMAL people? That's the new "N" word to those with issues, reminding them of what they are NOT.
Thanks! Henksters’ Law saved me some time during a busy time of year!
But we had Reagan. They didn’t.
The time period from 1976-1980 was their last best shot at expanding communism.
Our military was weak and hollowed out after Vietnam. We had a feckless leader in the WH. Our European allies, save England, would have abandoned NATO.
I well remember the concern that the Ruskies were winning and we were losing.
When they invaded Afghanistan I thought it was a precursor to invading Iran.
Imagine the world scene if that'd happened!
We’re saying two different things. You are saying Reagan was necessary but not sufficient by himself to bring about the downfall of the Soviets. Perhaps. I am saying that had Carter won, it never would have taken place, and in fact, we might have ended up losing.
“You’re our Consistency Sheriff.”
I thought that was Metamucil?
In 1977 or so I had a SPI board game that posited an Socialist World Order invasion of the United States some time around the end of the century. In 1977, it was not a far-fetched idea.
I have several Avalon Hill board games I still like to play.
I still have France 1940. I have more SPI games, but with the advent of the computer, they have become somewhat obsolete. I still play Panzer General II regularly, even though I know every move the AI will make. It’s become a mindless passtime, like solitaire.
Not if one only needs it sporadically.
Yeah but I don't, that's why I asked. Merry Christmas.
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