>>I don't see a particular significant US role in this whole process.
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>I'm amazed at that statement. You are dismissing everything that the US did from 1945 onwards. Do the words "Marshall Plan", "Berlin Airlift", "Operation Reforger", "NATO", or "arms race" mean anything to you? Do you have any idea of the billions of dollars and hundreds of lives spent by the US to help guard Western Europe from potential invasion? As someone who spent time patrolling the East-West German border, I can tell you that most civilians had - have - no idea what the potential for confict there was.
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>The West won the Cold War, not solely due to the actions of the US, but in a large part because of it.
Nope... America's superior economy and military had nothing to do with the collapse of Soviet Union. It was too much Vodka and Hollywood movies that did it.
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