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Obama and the Swan

July 19, 2008 - 8:00 pm - by Richard Fernandez
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2008-07-20 14:42:30

The decline in oil prices contributed to the fall of the Soviet Union, but so did Star Wars, including a faked successful test. They didn’t think that they could keep up and their oil price problems were part of the reason. Many were the sources of Soviet demoralization and resignation.