| [i:post_uid0]Reagan didn't 'win' the Cold War, he just happened to be in office during the Soviet Union's inevitable collapse.[/i:post_uid0]
But don't you think that through his Rearmament program and SDI, he forced the Societs in to spending much more than they could afford, which led to the Soviet collapse.
After they spent nearly a quarter of their GNP on weapons and where unable to the grasp the idea of SDI, they where so short of funds that they began to ask the United States for Economic concessions which never really came, so once Glasnost and Perestroka was introduced in Russia and they saw that the Soviet finaces where a mess while the uNited States where in proportion much more better off. the Sovit Union collapsed.
Had Reagan followed the policy of Carter and Nixon where the process of building new weapons was slow I don't think the Socit Union would have collapsed when it did.
(Apologies for any rambling or spelling, its 07.45 and I'm at Uni) |