Cockin's "Freedom Convoy"

In the past week, we have seen the very mild protest of the freedom convoy send the canadian regime into similar spasms of hysteria. But street protests had taken place before in the communist countries. The solution that communist rulers all hit on was borrowing hard currency from a west eager to prop up communist countries. As we'll see, the potnis germans just kept borrowing. Endthing hafe spending most of their new borrowing on paying interest to this economic failure. It is strange to us, but as kotkin points out, not only did all western analysts, including intelligence agencies, grossly overestimate the economic and political strength of communist regimes. Common wisdom among thei western elite was