The embargoes fail to bite
After the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Jimmy Carter rolled out the big battalions of economic warfare by cutting off U.S. shipments of grain and high technology to Moscow. But three months later, the U.S. trade offensive is stuck in a quagmire. Soviet troops are still in Kabul, and the "punitive" measures designed to get them out show few signs of biting. The Soviet Union will still be able to buy in the West this year nearly as much grain as it bought before the embargo, and replacement technology purchases...
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