LMFAO..you silly sap...
n 1999 Armstrong was charged with fraud by the SEC and the CFTC. Armstrong was imprisoned for eleven years on contempt of court and fraud charges
LMFAO..you silly sap...
n 1999 Armstrong was charged with fraud by the SEC and the CFTC. Armstrong was imprisoned for eleven years on contempt of court and fraud charges
Chicken - egg.Simple economics made the USSR fall.
Chris's lame and discredited "source" aside, that is correct. The only valid arguments I've seen go to the matter of degree...how much this or that factor mattered more.I have never read a history of the Cold War that DOESN'T say we pushed the Soviet Union into dealing with their economy in a way where they realized
"dammit, we can't do this anymore - let's try something else". Without the willful intentional effort to bring them to their knees - they could have gone
on like North Korea - endlessly impoverished nations limping along, putting all their effort into the cold war effort.
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History has a way of changing when the liberals and America haters write it.Chris's lame and discredited "source" aside, that is correct. The only valid arguments I've seen go to the matter of degree...how much this or that factor mattered more.
I wouldn't dismiss Martin Armstrong altogether - the truth is, he's right, the economic model of the Soviet Union was always a shambles.Chris's lame and discredited "source" aside, that is correct. The only valid arguments I've seen go to the matter of degree...how much this or that factor mattered more.
Those convictions 15 years before this piece was written has what, exactly, to do with the evidence put forth in the article?LMFAO..you silly sap...
He's trying to make the argument that the man is likely a quack. And I am not seeing that.Those convictions 15 years before this piece was written has what, exactly, to do with the evidence put forth in the article?
And if Brezhnev hadn't squandered USSR's oil profits on an arms race with the US, who knows. The US didn't even want the Soviet Union to break up but they knew that economically, the Soviets couldn't keep up.Economically - they could not match us and still survive.
Gilligan isn't trying to make an argument, he never does. He's trying to simply be "right" in any way that he can. If attacking the source, but not the material, makes him feel like a winner, good for him.He's trying to make the argument that the man is likely a quack. And I am not seeing that.
On the other hand, it makes no difference.
We won the Cold War because we fought the Cold War.
Which is why Reagan told him to tear down that wall and worked with him to make it feasible.These uprisings started 2 years after Reagan told Gorbachev to "tear down this wall".
Posts the child that tried to bolster his failed argument with a freak source. You really suck at this, kid.Gilligan isn't trying to make an argument, he never does.
Chris can't give him credit because the jackhammers didn't start while Reagan was at the podium.Which is why Reagan told him to tear down that wall and worked with him to make it feasible.
Hater.
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Not once -EVER - did I offer an argument to the contrary. Of course it was always a failed model. Not the point of the current discussion. I simply pointed to how the Reagan approach caused the inevitable to occur more rapidly. Good times they were, too.I wouldn't dismiss Martin Armstrong altogether - the truth is, he's right, the economic model of the Soviet Union was always a shambles..
Whiney little bitch he is, too. Watch..I predict he'll call me "Bill" in the next post or two because the juvenile thinks that's somehow "edgy". What a POS.Which is why Reagan told him to tear down that wall and worked with him to make it feasible.
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It's not a bad approach - if I had looked up that you source wasn't Martin Armstrong but Herbert Armstrong, I would have laughed myself to death.Gilligan isn't trying to make an argument, he never does. He's trying to simply be "right" in any way that he can. If attacking the source, but not the material, makes him feel like a winner, good for him.
Here's the thing: Trump is absolutely correct. Germany's energy dependence on Russia is, according to Trump in the 60-70 percent range, and that's a problem.Angela Merkel has pushed back against Donald Trump’s extraordinary tirade against Germany on the first day of the Nato summit in Brussels, denying her country was “totally controlled” by Russia and saying it made its own independent decisions and policies.
In less blunt language than the US president’s, the German chancellor made the point that she needed no lessons in dealing with authoritarian regimes, recalling she had been brought up in East Germany when it had been part of the Soviet Union’s sphere of influence.
Arriving at Nato headquarters only hours after Trump singled out Germany for criticism, Merkel said: “I have experienced myself how a part of Germany was controlled by the Soviet Union. I am very happy that today we are united in freedom, the Federal Republic of Germany. Because of that we can say that we can make our independent policies and make independent decisions. That is very good, especially for people in eastern Germany.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jul/11/nato-summit-donald-trump-says-germany-is-captive-of-russians
I read a book back in the 70's called "The Russians" by Hedrick Smith (I believe he was a NYT reporter but this is memory).Here's the thing: Trump is absolutely correct. Germany's dependence on Russia is, according to Trump in the 60-70 percent range, and that's a problem.
Merkel: Mr. Putin, you shouldn't be involved in Ukraine; those are human rights violations.
Putin: how much oil and natural gas did you need again, Mrs. Merkel?
Merkel: *crickets*
It gets him invited to the millennial's parties.Chris is like it's his career to hate President Trump. Or maybe he thinks it makes him hipster and kewlie, and he's getting older and needs that youth affirmation.
I bought a Harley...much easier on my stress levels than all that hate.Chris is like it's his career to hate President Trump. Or maybe he thinks it makes him hipster and kewlie, and he's getting older and needs that youth affirmation.