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helped the West prevail over Soviet Russia in the cold war. Today the system is in peril. Because there's no longer a Soviet Union posing an existential threat
by causality0 4y ago
helped the West prevail over Soviet Russia in the cold war. Today the system is in peril.
Because there's no longer a Soviet Union posing an existential threat to America, so why should we keep underwriting it? Target resources to address the threats of today, like China, rather than the threats of forty years ago.
- mikymoothrowa 4y agoI like how it’s convenient for economic theorists and political historians to point to anything that existed in the 1980s US and claim that the Cold war was won because of that thing. Somehow they ignore the fact that those things existed pre-Reagan and the pathetic state they were in economically, socially and politically regardless.