Re: Why am I having awful Reagan flashbacks?
Do you seriously think the Soviet Union collapsed because of US "pressure"? Even a nice historian would say that's a gross exagerration. Reagan's fiscal irresponsibility (and foreign policy, for that matter) was at best one of a million other reasons which led to the collapse of the USSR. The most important reasons were internal.
I gotta go with Clarkmeister on this one - all empires flounder eventually...it's only a matter of time, and the more corrupt the empire, the quicker the fall. Just the nature of the beast.
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