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Old 06-05-2009, 03:43 PM   #6
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The Soviet Union went bankrupt because Ronald Reagan pushed them to it. Reagan understood that the Cold War was really an economic war, and that all we needed to do was to spend at a rate we could not afford, but that the Soviets could less afford. The Soviet Union's fatal flaw was their predictability - a very common shortcoming.

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