SI
SI
discoversearch

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor.  We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community.  If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.
Pastimes : Kosovo
 Public ReplyPrvt ReplyMark as Last ReadFilePrevious 10Next 10PreviousNext  
To: Neocon who wrote (14038)8/18/1999 8:58:00 AM
From: MNI  Read Replies (2) of 17770
 
I thought so. I was used to the looser sense before I first met you (Thatcher, Reagan, Kohl - the global neocon triade ...).

For Gorbachev's behaviour there may well have been different reasons. E.g. it is well conceivable that SDI had a lot of beneficient 'side-effects' on the US strategical position even if it had been known to be outright impossible from the beginning. If e.g. these 'side-effects' would have been adding assault power to US nuclear weapons this could even have justified the Concerned Scientists comment. ... Anyway I saw by googling that in fact I was stirring up an older discussion along the same lines (although I had been talking from the empty stomach, as we'd say here).

So I post a link with some excerpts, if you were interested (http://www.theatlantic.com/atlantic/election/connection/foreign/reagrus.htm: Reagan and the Russians
The Cold War ended despite President Reagan's arms buildup, not because of it--or so former President Gorbachev told the authors

by Richard Ned Lebow and Janice Gross Stein
...
The Soviet Union's defense spending did not rise or fall
in response to American military expenditures. Revised
estimates by the Central Intelligence Agency indicate
that Soviet expenditures on defense remained more or
less constant throughout the 1980s. )

Best regards MNI
Report TOU ViolationShare This Post
 Public ReplyPrvt ReplyMark as Last ReadFilePrevious 10Next 10PreviousNext  

HomeMailHotSubjectMarksPeopleMarksKeepersSettings
Terms Of UseContact UsCopyright/IP PolicyPrivacy PolicyAbout UsFAQAdvertise on SI
© 2025 Knight Sac Media.  Data provided by Twelve Data, Alpha Vantage, and CityFALCON News