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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: i-node who wrote (69156)	5/2/2018 11:28:34 AM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 358861

If it was decisive (I'm not claiming to know either way) it was so in a "straw that broke the camel's back" way. Not that it was as insubstantial as a straw compared to a heavy load for a camel, just saying that at most it was the last little kick that caved in an already broken situation. If it (SDI and the buildup) had not happened, I'm pretty sure the system would have collapsed anyway. If it didn't it would have avoided collapse only by a lot of repression. Its possible that the party could have pushed Deng like reforms without as much increase in openness and non-economic freedom, while at the same time probably reducing the size and extra spending of the military to devote more resources to buy off the public with more goods (and maybe to move some of it to internal security to help with crackdowns if they are though necessary, that costs but less than an armored division or a flotilla of warships). That could have happened with or without the US military buildup but without would be easier, as the military would not like the idea of giving up on trying to match the US. Still Russia's situation was different than China's I don't the the CPSU would have pulled it off.