Putin is running free with Trump as President.

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1. Was neoliberalism the same thing that the U.S. involvement in afghanistan

and star wars in the 1980s and 1990s was to republicans? A ruse beat the Russians by getting them into a arms race till they bankrupt themselves? In the case of the liberal order post 1945, neoliberalism bankrupted liberals and the intellectual elite in the eyes of many across the world. All it took was 30 years and a series of electable puppets as republican presidents. Run up the debt and cut taxes always. I always wondered why they named themselves neoliberals and then turned around and made the world "liberal" a bad one in the 1980s and 90s. But i'm not sure.