Really. I will have to disagree. Russia did not have to collapse. There were agreements in place. George HW Bush collapsed the USSR for war booty, except no war; so interior turmoil would have to do. Who is expert in that? CIA. Who is George HW Bush? CIA. No friend, Ronnie had lost most of his marbles by then.
Gorbachev tapped out when he implemented Perestroika and Glastnost. Geopolitically, those programs were a humiliation after decades of global cultural conflict. You don't concede a propaganda/culture war like that unless you know the end is near. Both programs happened during the Reagan admin.
Reagan had trapped the Soviets into a game of chicken with spending on the arms race. He used the Star Wars program as a boogeyman, and utilized US deficit spending as an advantage. The Soviet financial system did not allow deficit spending, so they went bankrupt. By the time Reagan left office, the Soviet Union was terminally ill and there was no saving it.
Really. I will have to disagree. Russia did not have to collapse. There were agreements in place. George HW Bush collapsed the USSR for war booty, except no war; so interior turmoil would have to do. Who is expert in that? CIA. Who is George HW Bush? CIA. No friend, Ronnie had lost most of his marbles by then.
Gorbachev tapped out when he implemented Perestroika and Glastnost. Geopolitically, those programs were a humiliation after decades of global cultural conflict. You don't concede a propaganda/culture war like that unless you know the end is near. Both programs happened during the Reagan admin.
Reagan had trapped the Soviets into a game of chicken with spending on the arms race. He used the Star Wars program as a boogeyman, and utilized US deficit spending as an advantage. The Soviet financial system did not allow deficit spending, so they went bankrupt. By the time Reagan left office, the Soviet Union was terminally ill and there was no saving it.