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I feel that as soon as the existential threat easened with the splintering of the Soviet Union, the US started doing some self-harming libertarian flavored shit
by actionfromafar 8mo ago
I feel that as soon as the existential threat easened with the splintering of the Soviet Union, the US started doing some self-harming libertarian flavored shit to itself.
In the 1980s, I assume getting rid of the "strategic reserve" of anything would have met more pushback, because of primal fear overriding greed.
- noah_buddy 8mo agoYes, Reagan was noted for his desire to avoid privatization of anything. /s Kidding aside, the US has had libertarian pipe dreams for the better part of its history. The aberration was the New Deal period up until the mid 60s.
- scythe 8mo ago> We are going to do a terrible thing to you — we are going to deprive you of an enemy. – Georgi Arbatov, Soviet political scientist, 1988
- trollbridge 8mo agoWasn’t the original purpose of the strategic helium reserve to build fleets of zeppelins?