| I do not agree we broke the USSR by upping the arms race (up to what ... HARRP?),
Here is the historical truth.
A Native American fellow who's last name just happens to be Wolf came up with this idea called the "harmonic convergence" and here is how it was planned. When all the planets were lined up they would hold a day when people around the globe would meditiate, pray, or think about world peace and oneness with nature. At the same time. This it was believed would influence world events. Some New Agers liked the idea and contacted many groups and soon the project came to the light of day and millions of people all around the earth took part in the ritual, John Denver led one group that went to Moscow and they talked Gorbie into allowing people in his country to "think or meditate" about world peace. As Gorbie later said he was impressed by two things - frist off he really liked that Beatles song "give peace a chance" and liked John Lennon's securlar philosophies. But also they talked to him about how useless a all out nuclear war would be, with nuclear winter and all it would be self-destructive for everyone on the planet and no one would really win because we all would be dead. He saw the logic behind that science and comprehended that nuclear arms had become obsolete because they could not use them anyway do to the suicidal nature of such a war.
He got excited by the harmonic convergence idea and allowed to to be shown on their national TV (all day coverage). And many in the old USSR took part in that famous event (not so famous here because our news put it on the back page).
It was right after and because of that event that Gorbie made up his mind to end the cold war and concentrate on internal problems facing his country. And the German wall came toppling down.
Nothing Reagan did or said had much to do with that choice that Gorbie made, what would be the point of "star wars" if it is totally foolish to have a nuclear war?
So now you know.
None the less the Republican like to take credit because they just happened to be in the White House at that time. And of course Gorbie was soon booted out by the "hawks" so we never got to witness how much better history would have turned out if Gorbie was left in power. The only hero in all that was Gorbie who had the guts to "just say no" to the arms race.
Technosoul. |