Re:Another UFO shot down over Canada by US
by ggm on Sunday February 12, 2023 @01:44AM
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Most counterfactual fiction in this space has the repressive state continuing to be repressive and normalising "othering" of <bad people> and it's a well trodden path. Robert Harris, Len Deighton, Ira Levin, Yevgeny Zamyatin. Harry Harrison, Ward Moore.
Winning under MAD is moot. There undoubtedly will be losers at scale.
Historians differ if forcing the soviets to bankruptcy was necessarily better than a rapprochement. It worked, sure but like the end of ww1 gave birth to stab in the back rightist views of history, the FSU is now a kleptocracy and minor fights in Africa and the Middle east are now entrenched social cancers.
Afghanistan and the role of US funds to Pakistan on the region. Not a net benefit all told.
Winning under MAD is moot. There undoubtedly will be losers at scale.
Historians differ if forcing the soviets to bankruptcy was necessarily better than a rapprochement. It worked, sure but like the end of ww1 gave birth to stab in the back rightist views of history, the FSU is now a kleptocracy and minor fights in Africa and the Middle east are now entrenched social cancers.
Afghanistan and the role of US funds to Pakistan on the region. Not a net benefit all told.