![]() ![]() The belief that a State-run economy is best for all consumers and their prosperity is an illusion, something revealed by the lack of ardent Communists in Russia and China today. But the fact of the matter is that the Cold War was not just about the defeat of a Marxist ideology. The ideological part of the war may have concluded, with Marxism having failed in Russia and China slowly coming to seek out alternatives too. Yet in reality, it was put on the back burner the heat turned to low. ![]() We certainly had good reason to believe that the Cold War was over. ![]() His invasion is based on the phantasm of redeeming the power lost in the breakup of a Soviet Empire an illusion he is vigorously pursuing at enormous cost in blood and treasure. Though many of us believed the conflict that had defined the latter 20th Century was over, today Putin’s war in Ukraine dispelled that notion. The Soviet Union was no more, and the ideological pillars on which it had been built had crumbled. Still in college, I was impressed by the fact that the Cold War was finally over. ![]() The sun was bright, the air streaming by me cool, and I was carefree. It must have been in the summer of 1992, as a young man I was in the back of a pickup truck, driving down the highway of Cape Cod. ![]()
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