Who's on top now?

Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will
bury you!

Nikita Khrushchev

They say that hindsight is twenty twenty. The Cold War ended over 20 years ago. Now it's hard to understand how we got where we are...

So, how did the United States wind up having to rely on Soyuz rockets to reach the International Space Station? Is hitchhiking with the Russians the new normal?

On another note: How did the U.S.A. ever come to depend on the People's Republic of China to guarantee (buy) its debt? How did China become an industrial giant with the support and investment of the United States?

Remember Nixon and Kissinger's Shuttle Diplomacy; Remember Detente? Remember Gorbachev's Perestroika shuffle down Broadway in 1988?

Is it any wonder how we arrived at where we are now?

Arsenio.

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