Originally Posted by
MPN11
ISTR the NATO/US Arms Race was quite damaging to the Soviet economy a few decades ago.
As you note, TTN, it’s easier to manage with a subservient population.
One needs to look at UK over last 3 plus months in relation to subservient............... Govt screwed up and then scared the people into mass house arrest, anybody who questioned it was an enemy of the state wanting to kill people, national religion became "Worship the NHS" and a pliant media fell into line while the economy died and few questioned their actions .
I was in a key worker role than needed to travel, I founded people screaming at others in a filling station because the supposed 2 metre rule wasn't being adhered to it, it was but they put tape down every 3 metres.
The mass hysteria was scary to see in action while neigbours became willing spies that the Stasi would have welcomed.