Think about that for a second: Is "I'm going to be stupid and hope it convinces my enemies to be even stupider" a winning strategy? Wouldn't "I'm going to be

Think about that for a second: Is "I'm going to be stupid and hope it convinces my enemies to be even stupider" a winning strategy? Wouldn't "I'm going to be smart" be a better one? The Russians were done before Reagan was even elected. Google "Brehznev", or "Afghanistan". The rest of the line is just stupid hagiography from people who loved the way Reagan gave a speech. And the reason they lost Eastern Europe was because of artists and hipsters in East Germany. It wasn't from reverse-psychology mind control forcing them to spend money, it was because they had a crap economy and needed a military to suppress internal dissent.