re: #493 austin_blue

Ummm…no. The USSR collapsed on its own inefficiencies, which had been building up for decades. The final blow was Afghanistan. It broke them.

Sorry but that “collapse” took a push. Reagan read and understood The Strategy of Technology by Pournelle and Possony, and he used their thoughts from that and their economic warfare sections to help that push. Everyone laughed at star wars then, but it was a key factor.

The bad news is that the Chinese and the Russians now understand the strategy and are putting it in play against us.