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		cftm on March 19, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: CIA Doc on Time Travel, Consciousness, and Existen... This exactly. The cold war was ended by the Strategic Defense Initiative - not because it worked but because we forced the USSR to pour resources into matching us and it bankrupted the country.

mjevans on March 19, 2019 [–]

What an horrid war of attrition. The only winning move is to have deeper pockets.

nradov on March 19, 2019 | | [–]

It was less horrid than the alternative.

SubiculumCode on March 19, 2019 | | [–]

Yes it was resources used non productively. But winning a war with metal and bombs and radiation---priceless.

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