[Bluewater2015]

That was sure our goal, and our hope for the survival of mankind.

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Sure we all hoped for it, but no one (in the West at least) saw it coming, until the rot really set in around 1988 or so.

[ansel12]

We not only hoped for it, but we spent countless billions, and thousands of lives, millions of lives, to make it happen.

That was sure our goal, and our hope for the survival of mankind. We did what we could to break up that evil empire and free those slave states.