>But... nearly all of this was disbanded, given away, thrown away, sold off or demolished in the years after the demise of the Soviet Union. This hollowing out

>But... nearly all of this was disbanded, given away, thrown away, sold off or demolished in the years after the demise of the Soviet Union. This hollowing out seems to be true across much of the US and Western world. Once the threat of the Soviet Union was removed, the US lost it’s ability to defend it’s own society with equivalent state power. While the slashing and privatization of essential services was lauded by both parties, it seems that this might turn out to have been extreme shortsightedness.