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SoND
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PostPosted: 02:37 - 22 Feb 2009    Post subject: USSR was better prepared for collapse than the US Reply with quote
Is the UK prepared any better for a collapse?

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Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. I am not an expert or a scholar or an activist. I am more of an eye-witness. I watched the Soviet Union collapse, and I have tried to put my observations into a concise message. I will leave it up to you to decide just how urgent a message it is.

My talk tonight is about the lack of collapse-preparedness here in the United States. I will compare it with the situation in the Soviet Union, prior to its collapse. The rhetorical device I am going to use is the "Collapse Gap" – to go along with the Nuclear Gap, and the Space Gap, and various other superpower gaps that were fashionable during the Cold War

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PostPosted: 20:15 - 22 Feb 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
You could argue that the USSR didn't have as far to fall to rock bottom as the vrest do now.
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PostPosted: 21:27 - 22 Feb 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
I can't be bothered to rip that apart, but like Skudd says, the two are completely different. Essentially the USSR was in massive internal decline from the early 1960's onwards.
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SoND
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PostPosted: 15:45 - 24 Feb 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
Skudd wrote:
You could argue that the USSR didn't have as far to fall to rock bottom as the vrest do now.


What does that mean?

They knew they were close to rock bottom so prepared themselves a little in advance.

They were close to rock bottom so there was a bigger chance of collapse but the rest aren't as close so it won't happen.

The bigger you are the harder you fall.

Eh?
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PostPosted: 15:53 - 24 Feb 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
Jon B wrote:
I can't be bothered to rip that apart, but like Skudd says, the two are completely different. Essentially the USSR was in massive internal decline from the early 1960's onwards.


Could say the same thing about the USA , in that since the 1971 gold standard was abandoned by Nixon the ONLY thing supporting the USA is printed fiat money, even China is getting shaky about buying dollars now , when Jiang Jimin said to Clinton recently that the USD was unstable USD fell by 2 cents against plenty of other currencies.
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