Moonbats Ended the Cold War
From Moonbattery, AYFKM!
Sphere: Related ContentRemember how Ronald Reagan faced down the Evil Empire and defeated it through sheer brinkmanship, relying on the superior economic efficiency of the capitalist system to cause the Soviet slave state to collapse in on itself, thus winning the Cold War without firing a shot? Never happened.
Moonbats won the Cold War!
Or at least, they did if the Boston Globe could be believed. From the hagiography of deceased nuclear freeze advocate Randy Forsberg, check out this tortured inversion of history:
[Forsberg] helped end the Cold War, the most costly and dangerous confrontation in world history. This singular achievement was not hers alone, of course, but she spurred the massive social movement in the United States and Europe that convinced the superpowers - the United States and the Soviet Union - that they had to stand down from their nuclear rivalry.
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The nuclear freeze idea, and the citizens’ campaign that galvanized the world to embrace it, gradually altered the opinions of the public and then the policy makers in the United States and elsewhere. In America, the quickly rising popularity of the freeze collided with the equal popularity of President Ronald Reagan, who accelerated the arms buildup in the early 1980s. But the freeze movement changed Reagan’s own calculations, driving him toward arms control negotiations and softer rhetoric toward the USSR by 1984.
As you might recall, in conventional reality, it was Reagan’s rejection of the demands of kooks like Forsberg that led the Soviet Union to bankrupt itself trying to keep up with us.
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