So you think the Cold War has ended? Might want to inform Putin. I think you should take your own advice on the pause button!
And you think Reagan had something to do with it?
Was Reagan responsible for low oil prices in the eighties?
So throwing money at a problem gets your name on something...
Makes perfect sense....Obama got ACA named after him , Reagan got a ship!
Originally Posted by WTF
Yeah, the Cold War is over. The battle against communism is over and the Warsaw Pact is gone. I'm pretty sure is was in the papers.
They are going to have to come up with a new name for whatever it is that Putin is doing. Because this is about Greater Russian, it isn't about world-wide communism and it isn't going to be fought around the world in client states.
Putin is just a plain vanilla nationalist and totalitarian. He wants to pull all the former Soviet republics back into Mother Russia. He would just soon accept a capitalist system as a socialist system. Just so long as he controls it and can destabilize neighboring states so they never pose a threat.
He will attempt to grab pieces of neighboring states that have significant Russian populations - like Ukraine - because he wants to build Greater Russia.
But I don't see him trying to occupy East Germany, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Poland, Czechoslovakia or reassemble the Warsaw Pact.
Yes, of course Reagan had something to do with ending the Cold War.
And no it is not because he "threw money at something". That is a cynical reduction, not a reasoned response.
ALL government programs (good and bad) require money, so the mere spending of money tells you nothing. It is how you are spending that money - what you are trying to achieve - that determines whether or not you achieved something important. And on that point, it is pretty reasonable to name a ship after Reagan.
Now, remind me again what it is/was that Giffords achieved that was important?