For those people worried about Trump

[Clevfan4life]

The plant is technically open even though no one's doing shit. And I used my last two vacation days last week so I had to be here. Technically some of our customers and vendors were still open today sooooo......

 

Everybody's bored out of their minds. I'm glad though, new years means shit to me so I was happier spending time with my niece and nephew last week. They don't have something like Dave and Busters in Northern VA apparently, which I just reminded myself I need to check up on cause you'd think the DC area has "something" like it........but in any case they like their uncle to tote them up to D&B's. Mario Kart was our jam.

[Westside Steve]

Depending on the city you might be close to the Capital Ale House

[StinkHole]

I'm arrogant because i'm telling you to look shit up for yourself?

You got it fatass.

Providing links and sources to your inane outlandish claims is your job asshole. Oh the vanity...fuck you Steve, I know everything so just believe what I'm telling you." That's not the works around here fatass.

 

 

The USSR was never going to win the cold war, and the Ruble in no fathomable way could have become the worlds reserve . You go off on these outlandish hypotheticals while in the same breath accuse him of going off in tangents.

 

This is all anyone needs to know:

So for the Soviets to "win" the Cold War, either a massive ideological shift in world politics to the Soviet Socialist model would have had to occur ( right at a time when capitalist prosperity was becoming more and more attractive and images of a capitalist success story were becoming more accessible world wide), OR , the opposing antagonist in the "War", the United States would have had to inexplicably implode, unable to maintain its commercial and defensive commitments abroad and at home, and the Marxist-Sino-Soviet sphere would have had to find a rapid means to paint the Western implosion as a double historic event-the utter failure of Capitalism and a way of life, and the superior attractiveness of a seemingly successful Totalitarian Socialism. What Soviet statesman or men could have pulled THAT one off?

 

So Russian aims in the Cold War weren't to 'defeat' the west (they believed this would happen anyway, through the Marxist doctrine of the historical inevitability of the collapse of capitalism), but rather to secure the safety of the USSR - whereas the USA was clear abouts it's desire to turn the USSR into part of the wider capitalist world.

 

The USSR was never in a position to seriously threaten that of the US. Socialism , as practiced by the Soviets was always an abysmal failure and it wouldn't hve been improved by the failure of its greatest enemy. With few exceptions, the Soviets mass produced shoddy goods and were never able to corner any world market save that of the weapons trade (and even that was due to the sheer quantities they produced and sold cheaply, not due to its quality).

 

The most likely outcome would have been:

 

1.A weakened US eventually recovers.

2.Western Europe and Japan recover as the US does and gain some of the market share lost to the US.

3.The Soviet Union remained where it was due to inefficient manufacturing, corruption and a an abundance of raw materials.

4.No other nation steps forward due to the myriad authoritarian governments and nationalization strategies practiced in them from the 1940s onward.

5.The world slowly limps into the 21st century.

 

The US has been the linchpin to the world's economy since the 1940s and its collapse would have been followed by that of most of the other nations on Earth. The Soviet Union was never a serious economic rival and it could have never stepped into the shoes of the US (just as modern Russia cannot),

 

The US' collapse would be followed by a US rise and the world remain very much similar to the one in which we live today.