> That's how US destroyed USSR. Your arrow of causation is pointing in the wrong direction. At the time, intellectuals in the US believed (and many still beli

> That's how US destroyed USSR. Your arrow of causation is pointing in the wrong direction. At the time, intellectuals in the US believed (and many still believe) that Communism(or whatever you call the economic system that was practiced in the USSR) is the superior economic system. The USSR rotted from within due to fundamental economic problems like the principal agent problem[1] and the economic calculation problem[2]. The US didn't really have much to do with it, with the possible exception of "forcing" the USSR to spend a lot of resources it didn't have on weapons and space flight. ___ 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal%E2%80%93agent_problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal%E2%80%93agent_proble... 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_calculation_problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_calculation_problem