Gorbachev tried to hoodwink Reagan into giving up Star Wars and had the leftists support.
They said it wouldn’t work so why were the Soviets so afraid of it?
And man were they afraid of it, I remember that well and they were frantic about it, panicked, I’ve never seen a country so excitedly vocal about something as Russia was about SDI.
If Russia really believed it would not work, they should have just said,
“Knock yourself out, go ahead and waste all that money. We want you to”!