Tuesday, December 5, 2023

Post hoc ergo propter hoc

'after this, therefore because of this'

Did a TV show save the world?

"It has been credited with helping end the Cold War between the U.S. and the Soviet Union — and perhaps saving the world."

https://news.yahoo.com/day-left-viewers-shell-shocked-101153150.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall

NO.

In the main, what changed US policy and operations was a near disaster due to Soviet mis-reading US and NATO activity during an exercise in the fall of '83.

https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/aa83/2021-02-17/able-archer-war-scare-potentially-disastrous

Reagan continued to rattle the Soviets and bankrupted them with his management of the price of oil - the Soviet's only valuable export.


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