A Little Expansion Never Hurt Anybody! - As the United States watched uneasily, Soviet expansionist tendencies under Leonid Brezhnev led to Russian involvement in a number of conflicts around the world in the 1970s and 1980s, including a disastrous invasion of Afghanistan in 1978. Bill DeOre cleverly fills the entire page with the uncomfortably plump "economy." We can only imagine what would happen next in the cartoon.
Self-portrait, Bill DeOre
