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Flood Russia with capital

Flood Russia with capital

It defeated the Soviet Union

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Gary A Schlueter
May 14, 2024
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  Why is it only me who seems to remember, the ‘victory’ of the West over the Soviet Union back 35 years ago was not based on our military might or the Soviet’s lack of it. No, those war machines just got bigger and bigger on both sides during the Cold War. The victory, if we can call it that, was not military, it was economic.

    You see, we were con…

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