Author JR Nyquist was the first to postulate that the collapse of the Soviet bloc was a strategic maneuver, intended to actually further the cause of global communism.  This very same theory has been discussed at American Thinker here, here, and here, as well as at FrontPageMag. Notionally, this idea usually received the tinfoil hat treatment up until about 2008.Nearly ten years ago, Nyquist wrote on conspiracy theory in his weekly column:Most conspiracy theorists have yet to suggest what discovery might lead them to change their mind. It is my observation that whatever future event occurs, whatever fact is discovered, their notions can be flexibly fitted to the occasion. If a politician rises, it is proof there is a conspiracy. If that same politician falls, it is also proof. If a president is assassinated, we see the hand of the Satanic cabal. If he survives assassination, he has come over the cabal's side. When a Nazi official in the 1930s brought proof to Adolf Hitler...(Read Full Post)