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Lessons of the Cold War with Peter Robinson

The Genius of Thomas Sowell

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Reagan's Vision for the Soviet Empire

Reagan had that vision where the experts of the time were just assuming that the Soviet Empire was going to be around forever. And Reagan said, no, no,no, we're going to win and they're going to lose. He accomplished that in just a few years, amazingly. When Churchill takes office, Hitler is his second problem. His first problem is the British establishment. He can't wage the kind of war that he believes the country needs to wage without first changing the minds of his own people. So there's a parallel here. It may sound over dramatic, but I don't think it is actually.

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