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Mikhail Gorbachev has died

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970 points homarp | 1 comments | 30 Aug 22 20:37 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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bediger4000 ◴[30 Aug 22 20:56 UTC] No.32654941[source]▶
I was taught that Ronald Reagan ended the cold war and gave us the longest lasting economic boom.
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flavius29663 ◴[30 Aug 22 21:00 UTC] No.32654999[source]▶
He did. It's just that leftists in the US won't accept that and pretend that the Cold War just "ended" one day, because of the goodwill of the Russians, not because the US policy forced them into bankruptcy.
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the-smug-one ◴[30 Aug 22 21:03 UTC] No.32655037[source]▶
Dang, good move to force a whole country into bankruptcy.
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zmgsabst ◴[30 Aug 22 21:05 UTC] No.32655057{3}[source]▶
Seems to be working for China, as well.
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1. kenned3 ◴[30 Aug 22 21:21 UTC] No.32655256{4}[source]▶
I suggest you look at the external debt of China vs other nations, you may be surprised with what you find.