Help me out here, SDITech...
Major funding for this between 1986 and 1989 depleted their already depleted reserves, turned their dismal economy into a full-scale depression, and was not successful to boot. This costly failure, spurred by SDI and Reagan created the crisis
You lost me. Are you saying that SDI induced a depression in the US, making SDI a costly failure spurred by Reagan? You're right, but I think you overstate the magnitude of the failure. SDI alone would have caused a fairly mild recession, if it hadn't come on top of the ill-advised 1981 tax cut for the wealthy, the damage from which was only partly undone by the necessary tax increases quietly signed by Reagan a couple of years later. The damage Reagan caused with that one-two punch to the nation lingered right through Bush I's term, who lost to Bill "It's the economy stupid!" Clinton when he tried to hoover through it.