Mises Daily
Author:
Jonathan M. Finegold Catalan
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Upon the collapse of the Soviet Union, Soviet foreign spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov warned the United States, “We have done the most terrible thing to you that we could possibly have done. We have deprived you of an enemy.” For nearly half a century, the elusive threat posed by the Soviet Union formed the basis of American foreign and domestic