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How is Russia on the winning side of history? Kissinger was incorrect. They are losing 700,000 people every year through attrition, they have nothing to export except a finite supply of gas and oil and they are run by a combination of gangsters and former KGB. Their navy is being sold wholesale to India and China, Their space program is funded by NASA. Have I missed something?

You definitely are MISSING SOMETHING

I am pointing out what LOSERS Nixon and Kissinger were--That was their attitude --That were were going to lose and the Soviets win --It was part of Nixon's DETENTE policy

Reagan sh&% canned that DETENTE crap and confronted them as the EVIL EMPIRE and destined for the Ash Heap of History

I want to puke every time I see that blow hard Kissinger on TV trying to take some of the credit for winning the COLD WAR

I am pointing out to you that he and Nixon ( two losers) were willing to accept our defeat and were just trying to cut the best deal

What is so hard to understand

Detente and Salt 1 agreed to a parity of nuclear arsenals between the USA and the USSR. It also allowed the deployment of 2 ABM sites for each nation and for the US to deploy MIRV warheads.
This stalemate was accepted as part of the MAD doctrine and did not weaken the US.

Part of this treaty included Most Favored Nation status for the USSR and allowed the unrestricted emigration of Russian Jewry (the Brain Drain) to the west.

This was a brilliant move by the Nixon Kissenger team as the US was suffering huge deficits in Vietam and was experiencing 6% unemployment. The relaxation of tensions between the 2 superpowers allowed the US to undermine Soviet spheres of influence globally and showed the USSR and China that we had won the Peace race with our unmatched consumerism. The selling of Coca-Cola in Beiging, Moscow and Warsaw also helped win the cold war

But I understand- You don't like Nixon.