“What defeated to Soviet Union was the sheer economic might (military spending) of the US.”
What defeated the Soviet Union was Reagan strong-arming the Sudi’s into opening up the taps, and flooding the world with oil, lowering the price to point that the Soviets couldn’t compete with.
That, when combined with a completely corrupted economy from the bottom-up, couldn’t last.
Trains would leave Central Russian Farms stuffed full with grain, and arrive in the cities with less than 20% of the load, as everyone “took their cut” out along the way.
But today, lowering energy prices would be the death knell to the Academic Radical Socialist plan for America.
Corruption was a way of life in the USSR. Defense spending was an enormous line item for both the US and USSR. Undermining the oil prices would seem to be an important aspect to furthering the collapse of the USSR.