[Shhhh! I'm Listening to Reason!]

On Oct 25, 9:40 pm, Clyde Slick wrote:

at any rate, he [i.e. reagan] shares a lt of credit fpr
winning the cold war, which did us a lot of good.

That's the neocon take. My sister studied in Leningrad (as it was
named then) for several months in the late 1970s. She came back and
announced the Soviet Union was well on the road to collapse from
internal pressures.

The Soviet Union would have eventually collapsed all on its own
without Reagan. Reagan *may* have sped it up by a couple of year, but
that was not worth the massive military spending.