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While I view your comment in bad taste in light of the thread it is in, I find it worse that you would take a quick barb at something that is questionable whether you understand it. Shoot off your mouth and run. Nice trolling in a thread about Reagan dying today.
Supporting people who were fighting for their freedom from the communist backed Sandinistas is pretty evil huh? Well even if it were and truely "resulted in thousands of civilian deaths" (which is questionable since these people would still be fighting for their freedom today without Reagans actions - the Sandinistas fell shortly after Moscow cut off funding.) the precident it set helped end communist rule in Russia. Couple figures for ya - pay attension to the first one:
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Reagan's War by Peter Schweizer
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...costs that Reagan's policies placed on a struggling Soviet economy using Moscow's numbers:
- The cost of counterinsurgency operations against Reagan-backed guerrillas: $8 Billion a year
- The second strand of the European natural gas pipeline Reagan stopped: lost revenue $7-8 Billion / year
- Extra Arms shipped to Cuba to sooth anxieties over Grenada: $3 Billion
- Military spending increases announced to match Reagan: $15-20 Billion / year
- Lost revenue due to restrictions on technology imports $1-2 Billion per year
- Lost revenue from a sudden drop in oil prices $5-6 Billion per year
- Extra aid delivered to Poland after Reagan's sanctions $1 Billion
This amounts to a heafty pricetag for a superpower that had total hard currency earnings of approximately $32 Billion at that time.
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Have some respect for a man that made the world safe for you to troll threads in your spare time.