The weapons that won the Cold War

[Ninurta]

As seen on TV.......  that's where most people get their perceptions, their behavioral compass, and even more from Family. Mothers cousins, aunts and uncles and to a lesser degree dads. The Russians and the Americans. Who lost the most ? It really relied on monetary capabilities. $$$$$$$$ make the world go round $$$$$$$

We ran out last, or rather Greenspan worked the financial like a genius. Our failing to entrench a Hawk in the framework of the White house surely gave some moving room for the Russians. Bush and Obama were not actors of any consequence beyond Bush and Cheney being WAR CRIMINALS..  

Fact is, Russia ran out of money first. THIS Current administration seems to think they can ride this democrat horse anywhere, but the horse is failing. More a kiddy ride. A simple weapon, and the fact that most of that money was either fresh printed, or relieved from "WORKING" citizens who mostly kept it in their contaminated wallets that sit inches away from CaCaCalamity. So the war was just postponed a while until something better came along. PUSSY RIOT, didn't phase them, and 'The DIXIE CHICKS' didn't harm us.. it just showed our hypocracy. There were no winners, They won great benefits in crude oil pipelines that would later contribute to monetary successes. Losers ? There were many that fell when both our and their funds to foreign countries dwindeled or dried up altogether. Collateral damage not expected, not escapable.

I don't know that I would call Bush and Cheney "war criminals", but they were certainly dumbasses who had no clue how to run the wars they started, so there IS that... one should never start a war that he is not willing to actually fight like he means it, nor should one ever open a second front (Iraq) when the first front (Afghanistan) was not wrapped up tight.

One of Russia's advantages is that they can do more on less money, so they could stretch a ruble farther than we could stretch a dollar. They have fewer people on a larger land area, meaning they are less concentrated than we are, and that helped, too... but it is a reason they'd better keep a weather eye on China, since China has a more concentrated population, and will soon be, if not already are, looking for more land to expand that population on to. Russia has that land, China eyes it, and that can't be a good thing for Russia.

I can recall a time when you could get a brand new AK, still in the cosmoline and direct from the factory, for about 280 bucks - and the Russians were still making money on them, even at those prices, so production was done on the cheap. More stuff on less money - it seems to be the Russian way!

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