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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fishtm2001" data-source="post: 5775440" data-attributes="member: 54375"><p>Reagan’s defense buildup was not that meaningfully different from the 30 or so years of containment that preceded it. In fact, what particularly startled the Soviets in the last years of the Cold War was the increase in spending under Jimmy Carter, who restored funding to several high-tech defense programs following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979.</p></blockquote><p></p>