Donald Trump's Call for 'Arms Race' Boggles Nuclear Experts

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(12-23-2016, 11:24 PM)GMDino Wrote: There's this right wing belief that we forced the Russians to spend so much money trying to keep up with us they collapsed.

And it's all because of Ronald Reagan.
That's what they believe.

Does anyone in Europe or Russia think that?

The international version of the fall blames the Afghanistan occupation plus inefficient grain distribution in the early 80s; then Glasnost; then
the revolutions in Romania, Czechoslovakia, and East Germany--the Warsaw pact perimeter--followed by a dozen republics from Lithuania to Tajikstan. Seems like Afghanistan and Glasnost are the most important causes, Glasnost opening the road to political organization and protest.