Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.
It also was because we knew where their subs were from the time they left port until they returned.
The operative element here is Reagan was credible, a man of his word, to be respected and feared, according to one’s own actions. Today’s American leaders are silly putty.
The primary reason “Star Wars” won the Cold War was the inability of the USSR to compete financially. They didn’t have the funds for this new arms race, and when Reagan wouldn’t abandon it they were doomed.
-——the number was actually between 30 and 40 percent-——
There you have it....... Putin’s legacy.
He has a nation that can’t do anything. All he can produce is weapons. Russia has to scrape around the dictatorial scum of the world for customers of his weapons, the only thing he can produce.
He can’t make I Phones nor ibuprofen nor panty hose, but he can make fighter jets and radar systems.
The legacy of the soviet union is no ability to make mush of anything worth a damn and alcoholic men and women working so hard they have o time nor inclination for kids.
It was called Star Wars, but I liked “Ronald’s Ray Gun” best.
Now that the Israelis have Iron Dome, Reagen has to be smiling.
They had decent spies... they KNEW we could DO IT.
Very good article.
In Politico?
Hell must be frozen over, I know it’s even snowing here where I live, at 24 degrees.
The story goes something like this. Soviets were played by the simple trick aiming at the paranoia of octogenarians running USSR even before Gorbachev came to power. An American "science" (i.e. top intel professionals) delegation was sent to Moscow to share all American know-how with Soviets, in return of Soviet technology secrets, to foster mutual understanding and diminish the risk of mutual destruction.
Soviets were flabbergasted with what they saw. In their paranoid mind they thought "if they share this with us, who knows what they really have ".
Their paranoid mindset was telling them U.S. has Star War technology.
After this event, USSR changed leadership (first Andropov, then Gorbachev) in hope to tighten up economy and find the money for scientific research to match U.S. That what Perestroika was all about - to allow lower ranks control economy without the fear of the octogenarians in Kremlin.
The plan was one of the best deceptions in the world history, and it worked like a charm.
Ronald Reagan was a genius because he played the role with aplomb. He also knew, coming from California that American economy was on a brink of collapse and could not sustain arms race if USSR wakes up and tighten economy.
Can anyone direct me to the material about this deception?
The comments by the radical leftists there are amusing. After all these years, they are STILL unhinged about Reagan.