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Some points brought out by people on CTH:

All Too Much
September 2, 2021 10:48 am
“Just as in the final throes of Imperial collapse in the Soviet Union, nobody seems to be in charge in the U.S. It’s difficult to tell if incompetence is now the default setting everywhere in the American State or if there are a couple of competing chess games being played behind the curtain. When failure is so absolute, incompetence alone doesn’t seem quite up to the task. Perhaps failure received a nudge. After all, the cliff edge is already crumbling and it doesn’t take much to help a rival lose their footing.”

https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/elites-battle-future-america

whatevs
September 2, 2021 10:56 am
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From lefty Wiki: The dissolution of the Soviet Union was the process of internal disintegration within the Soviet Union, which resulted in the end of its existence as a sovereign state. The process began with growing unrest in the Union’s various constituent republics developing into an incessant political and legislative conflict between the republics and the central government.

1988-91, following their disastrous retreat from their Afghan War.

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Is this the reason for the way we exited Afghanistan? The Left is trying to get the American people completely demoralized so that our political system, such as it is as we have learned lately, completely collapses quickly?

The dissolution of the Soviet Union was the process of internal disintegration within the Soviet Union, which resulted in the end of its existence as a sovereign state. The process began with growing unrest in the Union’s various constituent republics developing into an incessant political and legislative conflict between the republics and the central government.

But look at what replaced the Soviet Union — a corrupt oligarchy. Better, but not exactly free, and certainly not what our forefathers had envisioned.

I was on study abroad in eastern europe at that time and I remember our chaperones telling us we could go wherever we wanted on the weekends since the borders had all fallen, but warned us to stay out of Russia. "People are starving over there." I had already encountered the Soviet soldiers on our way in to country, and had no desire to encounter them again. Creepy. We ended up going to Vienna, which was one huge party.