2007-10-30 09:54:37 · 4 answers · asked by jordan 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
His theory was we'll bankrupt the Soviets by outspending them and it worked.
2007-10-30 09:57:57 · answer #1 · answered by feanor 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
it didn't. the Soviet Union would have collapsed anyway. it was rotting from within. question is why was all that money being poured into the defense budget when the CIA knew this? that's a very complicated question but not a mystery. Actually literally every 'Reagan' foreign policy regarding the soviets was started under the Carter administration. the threat of the Soviets was greatly and ridiculously exaggerated much in the same way as Iraq was. Curiously enough it was the same people... Cheney and Rumsfeld. There's a few speeches where Rumsfeld is arguing based on Team B's evidence that the soviets were planning to attack. History has proven that even the conservative 'pragmatic' assessments of the CIA were wildly exaggerated.
2007-10-30 17:02:13 · answer #2 · answered by gherd 4 · 2⤊ 3⤋
It didn't. Communism was slowly decaying from within (French historian Emmanuel Todd very convincingly showed it in his remarkable 1976 book, "The Final Fall: An Essay on the Decomposition of the Soviet Sphere"), but the U.S. government was too busy writing checks to defense contractors to notice...
2007-10-30 17:12:33 · answer #3 · answered by NC 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
In no way . Comunism fell because Mikhail Gorbachev unwillingly made it talcum powder
2007-10-30 18:35:51 · answer #4 · answered by Ludd Zarko 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋