There was nothing amazing about predicting the collapse of the USSR in the '80s, unless you were in academics or the CIA. Do you forget that Ronald Reagan himself had predicted it long, long before that? :)
Thanks for keeping us on the straight and narrow. While we keep conjuring conspiracies mounted against us, we have created the greatest conspiracy of all time, as Ronald the Magnificent reminded us. It is called individual liberty and free market capitalism. It is simply amazing how many people are willing to sign on to this scam, from Texans to Indians. Even some former KGB members have signed up to it. The beauty of this conspiracy is that it is out their in public where everyone can see it.
It wasn’t predicting the “collapse”, it was predicting precise events of the collapse that is interesting.