'Worked' as in 'won the cold war and the Warsaw Pact collapsed liberating millions of people from Communism'. Not sure how that could be perceived as a negative.
Many of those people who were 'liberated' didn't feel so great about the Yeltsin years, 'shock therapy', the rise of the oligarchs and ultimately Putin.
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Well, on the upside the Reagan-era build up worked, at least.
'Worked' is a matter of perspective, I'm afraid.
'Worked' as in 'won the cold war and the Warsaw Pact collapsed liberating millions of people from Communism'. Not sure how that could be perceived as a negative.
Many of those people who were 'liberated' didn't feel so great about the Yeltsin years, 'shock therapy', the rise of the oligarchs and ultimately Putin.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b2/Russian_male_l...
Not to mention the damage the Reagan years did to the economy and society of the U.S.
I bet the people of Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Hungary, Czech Republic etc etc feel pretty good about it though.
Hungary and Czech Republic invaded USSR as part of Hitler's coalition. They had it coming.
Amen