Comments by "MarcosElMalo2" (@MarcosElMalo2) on "Daily Mail World" channel.

@warfarenotwarfair5655 Not even close. SDI was going to be a defense against inter-continental ballistic missiles with multiple re-entry nuclear warheads. It never got off the drawing board, and many of its component systems were theoretical. At the time it was announced, the pentagon was releasing film of aircraft shooting targets with lasers (thus the tag Star Wars defense). This should tell you something—it was credible enough to confuse and scare the Russians. They believed we were actually on the verge of gaining this capability. And they had nothing like it. So they went to work investing a lot of time and money, trying to match what they thought was a near future capability. SDI was part of the effort to bankrupt the Soviet Union and it worked. Those Democrats that decried the cost of the “Star Wars Defense” actually made it more credible to the Soviets, who thought that we were already far ahead of what was being shown to the public. SDI wasn’t the only dog and pony show that fooled the Ruskis. Remember the proposed MX Missile system? These were supposed to be vehicle mounted ICBM launchers on a “race track” with concealment structures. Basically a shell game to force the Soviets to target all the structures that might be hiding a missile equipped vehicle. The 80s was effed up for the Soviets. They couldn’t find our subs, they thought their first strike target list was about to become impossibly huge, and they thought we were close to having a laser based missile defense. The last two were bluffs, but they were bluffs that the USSR couldn’t call because they were out of money.
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