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Mikhail Gorbachev has died

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970 points homarp | 3 comments | 30 Aug 22 20:37 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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. _-david-_ ◴[31 Aug 22 00:37 UTC] No.32656964{4}[source]▶
The US did the opposite with China. Instead of trying to bankrupt China, the US opened up trade in hopes of creating a liberal democracy in China.
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2. CRConrad ◴[01 Sep 22 11:49 UTC] No.32675060[source]▶
Yeah, and it seems to be working for China -- not on. The US opened up trade with China, and since then China has managed to have the West dismantle its industrial base. It's working great for China! (Except hopefully the rest of the world is finally waking up to what's going on).
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3. the-smug-one ◴[04 Sep 22 10:59 UTC] No.32711764[source]▶
It's not like China forced the west to dismantle its industrial base. The west was happy to do it! And now we're living in a globalized world, where the worker has won less than their masters.