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To: jeltz25

No, and even if someone wants to paint a worse case view of it, which won’t be that bad, nothing can compare to the near end of life as we know it, in the 1980s.

By 1979 my personal take was that the mid 80s was the big deadline for the USSR, that was when they had to make their attack on the West, or lose a window that could cost them a decade or two to regain.

During my military service which I started again in 1983, to join in Reagan’s global war against the Soviet Union, my serving on the outer fringes of Military Intelligence led me to believe that I had been right in my 1979 assessment that Soviet power, and American weakness, would reach a sweet spot for the Soviets around 1984/85 it was a window where the Soviets had to either jump, or else Reagan’s build up would have time to take hold and fill the hole, costing the Soviets another decade or two.

Nobody anticipated Reagan actually taking them out during his decade.

Nobody was predicting the end of the Soviet Union, instead, they were seen as winning, expanding, and our media was groveling at their feet, even allowing them to influence and veto Hollywood projects.


8 posted on 09/07/2013 10:28:39 PM PDT by ansel12 ( Libertarians, the left's social agenda with conservatism's economics, which is impossible of course)
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my serving on the outer fringes of Military Intelligence led me to believe that I had been right in my 1979 assessment that Soviet power, and American weakness, would reach a sweet spot for the Soviets around 1984/85 it was a window where the Soviets had to either jump

Funny, how that echoes "Alas Babylon", though the dates were quite a bit off in the book, but the premise the same.

15 posted on 09/07/2013 10:34:29 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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