@toly@Mavericks100xs@netanyahu That’s hindsight bias. Egypt didn’t “break” the USSR global energy markets, economic structure, and internal inefficiency mattered far more.
If it was the turning point, the USSR wouldn’t have stayed a superpower for another 15+ years.
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@toly@Mavericks100xs@netanyahu A "paper bear" doesn't put the U.S. through an arms race, project power on multiple continents, and remain a superpower for another 15+ years. Egypt was a setback for Moscow, not proof that the USSR was finished.
@toly@Mavericks100xs@netanyahu If Egypt was the turning point, why did the USSR continue expanding influence in Africa, Afghanistan, Vietnam, and elsewhere throughout the 1970s? That doesn't look like a superpower in irreversible decline yet.
@toly@Mavericks100xs@netanyahu Interesting point, but why do you think Egypt's shift mattered more than China's opening, the Soviet-Afghan War, Reagan-era pressure, or the USSR's economic stagnation? Those seem far more decisive to me.