re: #435 Dark_Falcon

Everything you say is correct. But we still kept on increasing spending while even though there shouldn’t have been the need.

Instead we handed Moscow what they wanted - no extremely accurate Pershing II’s in Europe (really the only thing that made Enhanced Neutron Radiation Weapons viable) , still kept spending on “Star Wars” and other fantasy weapons while they could back off on much of their own spending. Not enough for Moscow to save themselves, in the end, as they couldn’t convert it to consumer goods, but that was their real failure not some magic from Ronnie.

Reagan was played like a fiddle by three general secretaries of the Supreme Soviet.