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Originally Posted by mcsluggo
yes, we bankrupted the USSR...
...to some extent, by driving smaller cars and turning down our thermostats. THe price of oil dropping to $13 bankrupted the Soviet Union (the #2 oil producer in the world). THis one is EASY to read.
perhaps we'll bankrupt al-quada (at least their backers) with the same strategy someday?
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Well you are daft then. We didn't bankrupt Saudia Arabia? maybe it was because they weren't trying to put short-range nukes in europe, maybe they weren't trying to keep up with our military build-up.
Just because oil dropped in price didn't require the USSR to continue trying to compete with us....and THAT strategy was ALSO protested by the europeans just as must as iraq is now. In fact it seems only by the US becoming a democratic party led country can we keep the europeans blissfully, ignorantly happy.
You dems have a hard enough time keeping the facts straight for the last 5 years, let alone the last 20+. History will write that Renaldous Maximus defeated the Soviet Union. One of the ways that the did that was putting perhsing missiles in europe, all the while that the same europeans (probably the EXACT same europeans) protested it.