Blog: to what extent die the USA win the Cold war through Economic means?
USA and USSR, had more than enough missiles and nuclear armament to destroy man-kind many times over. So, what we did, Ronald Reagan, was to make it known to the Soviets that we were investing in a massive defense grid called "STAR WARS" that would protect us from any missile attack that would threaten our air space.. By doing this, it put a new light on how the Soviets would be considered more powerful than the Americans. The trouble was when the Soviets tried to do find some kind of counter move that would eliminate the Americans advantage, they had to rely on their economic/military strength; which was very weak to begin with. When the Soviets could not come up with an instant answer, the more money they sank into the problem and their whole economic infrastructure collapsed. Now, not only could they not keep up with the Americans, but they didn't have the money to pay many of the people of their country and their wasn't any money to maintain the arsenal of weapons they had. ff