Economics, pure and simple. They went broke. What was a major contributing factor to that? Any Republican will tell you that it was Reagan's strategy of forcing them to spend so much on military build-up in order to compete with the US. We do know for a fact the Russians spent a lot of money building up their military, but it wasn't just their arsenal of missiles that cost them so much, it was their war in Afghanistan. A faltering economy, heavy competition with an economic powerhouse, and an overstretched army fighting a war against an intractable force of Islamist militants with costs spiraling out of control.
Sound familiar?
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Why the Soviet Union failed, and what that has to do with us now
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