“Even if we won the Soviet communism, we won’t win Marx’s spirit. It continues.”
Rubio is right about the latter, but completely wrong about the former. "America defeats the Soviets" is just a silly, self-serving myth that ultimately leads nowhere. The Soviet Union imploded from within, and if anything, America did far more to continue the Soviet project than to overthrow it.
Sure, there was a race between the Soviet Union and the US. But Soviet industrialization itself was established by American companies, Albert Kahn and others. Stalin said that two-thirds of the Soviet Union's major industrial projects were built with American aid and this was long before World War II. There was Lend-Lease, there was no direct war between the two, and most importantly, no real goal to topple the Soviet Union. GHW Bush wanted Gorbachev to stay in power. And so on, and so on.