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Yeah after 1980 or so the 'cold war' was just about siphoning taxpayer money to the military industrial complex.

• refurb 6y ago
  I'd love to hear how you arrived at that conclusion (that somehow military spending before 1980 wasn't the same as post-1980).
  • Gibbon1 6y ago
    Easy because I grew up in the Valley during the 1960's and 70's. If you believed the muttering of military and aerospace engineers and the occasional ex-soviet engineer, or the girl material science engineer I knew that spent a year studying in the Soviet Union. Well you knew the war was over and the Soviets lost. Or you could believe the usual propaganda. I am amazed how many people still choose to believe the propaganda.
    • refurb 6y ago
      Certainly no lack of strong opinions from engineers.
      • Gibbon1 6y ago
        Go look at the MiG-25 which the US got their hands on in 1977 and then come back and say the Soviets hadn't lost the cold war.