Re:Reasons to Fear Another ‘Great War’
by amanaplanacanal on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @01:30PM
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I will say it is weird when it seems to make sense to be more scared of the people on your own side than the people on the enemy's side. Perhaps they have folks just as scary, though.
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Re:Reasons to Fear Another ‘Great War’
by stevenwoo on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @01:56PM
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We almost went to war in 1983 - the political sloganeering by Reagan adminstration combined with the paranoia on the Soviet side (their double agents inside the West reported Able Archer 83 as an exercise but the Soviets interpreted the intel) made a military exercise for NATO appear to be the start of a first strike preparation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Able_Archer_83